Ann Evankovich’s first hired writing came in college when she bartered a term paper for a computer program with a classmate.  It wasn’t a big payoff, but she did get a “B” in her Intro to Computer class.  Term papers and literary essays always came easily.  Since that time, Ann earned her Bachelor’s Degree in English Education at the University of Maryland in 1988.  For ten years, Ann taught high school English in Prince George’s County Schools, the county in Maryland where she grew up.  Not only did she teach English subjects ranging from yearbook to 9th grade composition to Advanced Placement Literature, she also taught math and science classes to learning disabled students. 
  
Ann began working as a freelance writer in her spare time in the latter years of her teaching career.  She had several articles published for religious print magazines and on-line journals.  Ann also wrote a great deal of educational materials used by her local congregation. 
  
After some time off to raise babies and get a divorce, Ann returned to the workforce as a technical writer.  Working with a local general contractor, Ann collected and organized copious house maintenance information for a website currently in development.  In an effort to be thorough, Ann had the delightful opportunity to go out with the contracting crews and participate in some of the repairs and projects about which she had been writing. 
  
Inspired by the fun on the contracting job sites, Ann began recording her experiences on a web log (see links.)  Although the job site work has concluded, Ann has continued the recreational blog as a fun writing exercise. 
  
Moving on from technical writing, Ann has branched into other writing experiences. Press releases and webcopy for a local restaurant have been fun assignments. Restaurant critic has proved to be a delicious assignment. The years as an English teacher are paying off in several proofreading and manuscript critique projects. As a personal essayist, Ann has combined two of her pleasures: listening to stories and writing them. 

In January of 2007, Ann began working as the school's columnist for the Crofton News-Crier, a subsidiary of the Capital-Gazette Communications newspaper. This wonderful writing assignment combined Ann's experience as a teacher with her writing skills. She has found interviewing children and teenagers to be a delightful challenge. Some of her articles run in the Annapolis Capital and other of the Capital-Gazette family of papers.

Most recently, Ann has begun freelance writing for Suburban Scene Magazine. Along with advertorials and assignment pieces, Ann will be maintaining a blog for the magazine's website discussing the Suburban Singles Scene. She will then write a column for the monthly print magazine based on the blog conversations. Ann invites you to join in this conversation at www.suburbansingles.blogspot.com.