2011_Anna_S

Anna attended the University of Illinois in Champaign, graduating with a BA in International Studies. She worked for four years teaching English to non-traditional students at INTRAX International Institute in Chicago. Anna went back for her MA in Teaching and Certification through National-Louis and upon completion of her training, secured a job teaching sophomores through seniors at Steinmetz High School in Chicago. She is a passionate learner and avid reader not only writing of personal interest, but professional as well.As a writer What made you love writing? The way that writing allows her to see her life mirrored in her words and reflect on it. Express it in images. She writes in snippets—poems, journals, scenes from stories, e-mails—and builds from there. Have you published your writing? What is successful writing to you? What genres do you prefer to write in?