Ann Marie is a 1994 graduate of the University of Alabama with a bachelor's degree in early childhood education. She received her master's degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, also in early childhood education. She is a National Board Certified Teacher and the 2007 recipient of the Donald H. Graves Writing Award. She has taught at Riverchase Elementary School in Hoover, Alabama and at the Manhattan New School in New York City, as well as schools in Birmingham, Alabama, and Bronxville, New York.
She loves to paint, send email, read on the floor of the children's book sections of bookstores, have fun with friends and family, shop in New York City, and eat at restaurants with a great wine list, and she appreciates a good vanilla buttercream cupcake.
