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Anne Marie Wells

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in Utica, New York, The United States
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Since leaving her hometown of Utica, New York, in 2004, Anne Marie (she | they) has called several places across the country and globe "home." She is a proud queer person navigating the world with a chronic illness.

Anne Marie's debut collection of poetry, Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems, was published through Curious Corvid Publishing in April of 2023.

Her chapbook, Mother, (v), won the 2023 Cinnamon Press Pamphlet Contest and debuted in March 2024.

She is a freelance copy editor, proofreader, poetry coach, and nonprofit consultant.

Honors & Support
2025
3-Day Chapbook Contest Honorable Mention
Abode Chapbook Contest Shortlist
Erbacce Prize Long List
Alexandria Jazz Fest Featured Poet
October Project Poetry Contest Third Place
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Anne Marie Wells Writerly Newsletter October 2025

Happy Spooky Season, Writers,

Here is a SNEAK PEEK writing prompt from my forthcoming book Write Some Cool Sh!t.

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For more sneak peeks, check out the Star Belt Press Instagram page. Each of the special guests for the book launch have a writing prompt inspired by their words, their work, or their life, and each will be revealed as they’re introduced over the next two months.

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“I feel disconnected from the people who I know have not experienced the exposed nerves of a close loved one yanked by pliers from one's jaws. I am different from them now. They can’t know the festering wound staining my teeth red, can't know the taste of salt and iron in everything I eat.”
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“I never thought I would feel lucky to have pain dripping from my pores, pain stuck to the pads of my fingers, to the bottoms of my feet, to have pain become the core of my identity in an instant, but here I am.”
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“I am a ghost town, my body still exists among the remnants and relics, but no one lives here anymore. The locals moved out with the post office. The shelves at the corner store stand as tombstones marking the prices of items
that once waited for hands to toss them in their basket. Spiders and the remains of their kills fill the fluorescent lights. The crows don’t even stop on the wires when they fly over.”
Anne Marie Wells, Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems

“He who knows he has enough, is rich”
Lao Tzu

“Its the same for every career and life decision. You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve, and you're going to speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going.”
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“I was a curious boy, but the schools were not concerned in curiosity. They were concerned in compliance... 60% of all black men who drop out of school end up in jail. This should disgrace our country, but it does not.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“I read about Queen Nzinga who ruled in Central Africa in the 16th century resisting the Portuguese. I read about her negotiating with the Dutch. When the Dutch Ambassador tried to humiliate her by refusing her a seat Nzinga had shown her power by ordering one of her advisers to all fours to make a human chair of her body. That was the kind of power I saw. and the story of our own royalty became for me a weapon.”
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“Many people go looking for wool and come back shorn.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

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