Winston-Salem, North Carolina native, Ann Lewis Coogler has lived in upstate South Carolina for thirty-seven years. Her inspirational story, “Finding Faith” was published in God Allows U-Turns: American Moments. “Baseball’s Bond”, the story of a trip to New York City with her dad, was published in Chocolate for a Teen’s Dreams.She has an article in “Chicken Soup for the Recovering Soul:Daily Inspirations”, and a story in “Chicken Soup for the Soul:People Who Make a Difference.” 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 currently in recovery after the death of her husband in February, 2011. Traveling with her grandchildren, family, friends, and faith are helping her to establish a ‘new normal’ in her life.
Her reentry into writing after a two year hiatus is a work in progress.
Ann and her late husband, Bill, have a combined family of five children and six grandchildren.