Born and raised in the wilds of suburban Philadelphia, Ann now lives in their ancestral homeland of Western Pennsylvania. They plies her trade as an international high-stakes technical writer and a fantasy author. In their spare time, they’re terraforming their back yard.
They are still a bit upset the elves sailed west at the end of the Third Age and wonders what the world would be like had they stayed.
Ann holds a BA in Creative Writing from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University.
Ann is represented by Jennifer Udden of Barry Goldblatt Literary.
About the heading photo: It’s a photo Ann took in 1999 of Florence, Italy, as seen from the Boboli Gardens.
Ann writes most frequently as Anna Zabo.
Ann Laurel Kopchik 