Ann Bracken

Ann Bracken’s 22-year teaching career includes work as a speech pathologist, special education teacher, and college lecturer in professional writing. She has published three books of poetry, a memoir about her journey from overmedication to recovery, and serves as a contributing editor for Little Patuxent Review, a Maryland literary journal. Her advocacy work promotes using the arts to foster paradigm change in the areas of emotional wellness, education, and prison abolition.