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Ann Evans is a writer, linguist, and professor. Twice a wife and once a widow, she’s a mother and grandmother. She has traveled and lived in many countries and speaks six languages.

Her first book, DARING TO DATE AGAIN (SheWrites Press, 2014) won multiple prizes for memoir. Her story, “Precious Love” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Other short stories have been published in Entropy, The Opiate, Pulse, Phantasmagoria, Forge, Under the Sun, Ozone Park Journal, Phoebe, The Raven’s Perch, Words & Images, Pedagogy, and Better Than Starbucks. Ann has appeared on television, radio, and podcasts, with appearances on The Discovery Channel’s Sex in America special, NPR’s Author’s Corner, and many more.

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