Born and raised in Bedford Stuyvesant Brooklyn NY, an integration experiment at a Quaker Prep School. She began writing occasionally after graduation from Hunter College gaining an undergraduate degree in English and American Literature with a minor in Baroque and Rennaissance Art. Afterward, she was certified as a MA teacher, gained an MFA in Textiles traveled, and studied in Peru, Ecuador, and Guatemala, then produced 1/4 of a ton of textiles which she distributed throughout the northeast, also writing articles for Fiberarts Magazine, having a few art shows and editing a history of the New England textile industry.
Anna is a nationally acclaimed Yogic Healer and Health Practioner, and a Kripalu certified yoga instructor. In Newton Center Massachusetts she founded a multicultural resource publishing company providing resources to schools and libraries and producing the first Multicultural Symposium in Massachusetts at Emmanuel College for teachers and others interested in expanding the curriculum.
She taught yoga at Boston Medical Center and in her yoga studio Soul Sanctuary which she built on top of her home where she provided individual counseling for chronic ailments like back pain, depression, high blood pressure, diabetes, anxiety, trauma, and PTSD. She held Annual Yoga and Meditation Retreats. as well as other events including BodyLove®Yoga Women’s Retreats sharing recalibrating from traumatizing experiences; learning to bring their own kitchen practices more in alignment with elemental energies; breathing into a new relationship with the body, easing struggles with eating and body image to connect with the fueling center of the whole woman.
She worked with disparate populations at the Boston Medical Center, Dana Farber Cancer Insitute, and numerous civic organizations to benefit health and wellness in disparate populations including international male and female torture survivors, children who’ve survived many unusual deaths, cancer survivors, and black women in four Boston Health Centers.