Anne Louise Lovett, native of Dublin, Georgia, tenth-generation southerner, and daughter of a cotton grower, inherited the storytelling gene from her mother. Bedtime stories about a girl named Sparkle Marie who had fantastic adventures led Anne into scribbling her own adventures on Blue Horse paper when she was supposed to be doing homework. She penned heroic plays for her Girl Scout troop and wrote a humor column for her high school newspaper. She’s still trying to get over her habit of making wisecracks. Her goal in life was to be a writer and poet, but she was hampered by having athletic, fun-loving parents and relatives who were fairly normal despite their habit of running for public office.
A true INFP, she felt a duty to save the world as a medical researcher, despite having no head for math. Somehow she managed to earn a B.S. degree from Emory and a Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in the field of natural products, working on an experimental macrolide antibiotic.
She pursued a variety of occupations trying to escape her true calling, such as teaching, running a precast concrete business, editing academic proceedings, caring for her mentally challenged daughter, and volunteer work including church vestrywoman, board member of the Episcopal Media Center, and chairman of the church's Christmas Bazaar. Finally, tortured beyond endurance by committee meetings, she picked up her pen.
Her short fiction has appeared in Aethlon: Journal of Sport Literature, The Distillery, The Jewish Women’s’ Literary Annual, and Red Wheelbarrow. Non-fiction, book reviews, and essays have been published locally, and poetry has appeared in Lore and The Grapevine Art & Soul Salon. Her novel Rubies from Burma was a finalist in the 2008 Pacific Northwest Writers competition.
She is working on a number of projects about love, mystery, and manners in the South—contemporary, historical, realistic, funny, and tragic—all at once. She writes about, unsurprisingly, clergymen, doctors, nurses, and small-town characters. Her favorite writers are F. Scott Fitzgerald and Margaret Atwood.
P.S. She used to play the piano but gave her fabulous 1928 Cable upright to her son, so if you are looking for the concert pianist, look again.
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For a wonderful book on people who change course in life, see U-Turn: What If You Woke Up One Morning and Realized You Were Living the Wrong Life? ( Bruce Grierson, Bloomsbury, 2007) |
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