Anne Markham Bailey (she/hers) is an American poet and author. She teaches creative writing
and book arts to incarcerated and post-incarcerated people in the Alabama Prison Arts and
Education Project with Auburn University. Anne is also a teaching artist with UAB Arts in
Medicine. Anne is a founding member of the Quorum Poets, a workshopping collective of
Birmingham poets that hosts The Quorum Poet Present, a monthly reading, featuring a guest poet
and Open Mic. She edited and contributed to The Hemlock Poems(2023). The poems from the
chapbook were featured in Wild Alabama’s Saving Alabama’s Hemlocks art show. Her first book
of poems, Cold Stone, White Lily(2011) was published in the UK by the Friends of Julian imprint
at the shrine of Julian of Norwich. In addition to her chapbook Nancy Marguerite’s
Chopin(2018), Anne wrote and independently published The Daring Egg(2020), a picture book
for children. Her most recent book is The Practice of Being(2022), a pithy creative awareness
practice guidebook. Anne is completing a new manuscript of poems, The Conjugation of Winter.
Anne is a certified Forest Bathing/Nature Therapy Guide, passionate about connecting creative
writing and deep listening with applied mindfulness practices in more-than-human world. She
holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Columbia University, an M.F.A. in Book Arts from the
University of Alabama, and an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama at
Birmingham.
To learn more and to check out her books, projects, and programs: https://
www.annemarkhambailey.com/ @annemarkhambailey