Winston-Salem, North Carolina native, Ann Lewis Coogler has lived in upstate South Carolina for thirty years. Her inspirational story, “Finding Faith” was published in God Allows U-Turns: American Moments. “Baseball’s Bond,” the story of a trip with her dad, was published in Chocolate for a Teen’s Dreams. She has contributed to the Daily Journal and Messenger, Seneca, SC, as a guest columnist. She was named Poet Laureate of the Walhalla South Carolina Sesquicentennial and edited the play, “Shadows on the Mountains” as the Assistant Director for the Walhalla Sesquicentennial Pageant. Her poem “Dare We Hope,” in honor of the astronauts who perished aboard the Columbia Space Shuttle, was accepted for the May, 2003, publication of “Bereavement Magazine.”
She served on the Writing Committee of Westminster Elementary, Westminster, SC when the school was placed in The South Carolina Elementary School Writing Hall of Fame. She is involved in the Christian Writer’s Den of Simpsonville, SC and a local three member critique group, The WC – The Writer’s Cramp.
She is currently writing a self-help book about her struggles with depression. The depth of the illness has been so profound, it has taken her eight years to express the story in a self-help genre.
Ann and her husband Bill have a combined family of five children and nine grandchildren.