Born in Los Angeles, Anna fell in love with poetry when she cut her baby teeth on the work of Shel Silverstein and Dr. Seuss. Her family relocated to Humboldt County when she was young, and the Pacific Northwest remains a major influence on her work. Anna published work in two youth anthologies in the early 2000s, and after taking a long - and painful - break from writing, her poetry received an honorable mention from the Women's National Book Association's 2017 writing contest, and was selected as a finalist by the 2018 Writers@Work poetry competition.