Anna Marie Cain is a reformed ad writer, puzzle enthusiast and a queer, disabled Army Veteran (which is how she learned she’s immune to riot gas). After deploying to Iraq, she was honorably discharged from the Army (as Sergeant Cain) and received her BA from the University of Washington in English with a creative writing focus. Working as a copywriter in advertising she wrote commercials for brands that told people they were sacks of garbage without a cool “new” version of their same old product. When the pandemic hit, she’d officially had enough of doing a bastardized version of the thing she loved and applied for MFA writing programs to pursue the type of writing she truly cared about. In her mid 30s she officially quit, bartended around NYC and received her MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College as a Kalodner and Graduate Scholarship recipient.
Anna Marie has published fiction in the Northwest Review and regularly contributes interviews for the Los Angeles Review of Books. She resides in Brooklyn with her rescue pup turned service dog, Baxter (who for the record is a very good boy), and is in the middle of revising her first novel.
