A M Carley

A M Carley. Photo: Ayla Palermo

A M (Anne) Carley‘s creative nonfiction and fiction are mostly about contemporary issues and recent cultural and social history in the United States. After careers in arts management, online publishing, and intellectual property law, she now owns and operates Anne Carley Creative, which provides creative coaching and editing to people who work with words. She works with her clients on #becomingunstuck.

BACCA helps keep her own life in balance, reminding Anne to keep writing!

Her nonfiction essays, reviews, and opinion pieces have appeared online and in print on topics in the arts, arts education, technology, and public policy. She has come to enjoy writing fiction and creative nonfiction, thanks in part to the power of BACCA, and the realization that, with creative nonfiction and fiction, you can use dialogue. And partial sentences.

FBUW frontcoverv8 161118 4bowker.jpg — Available in paperback and ebook versions.

Anne’s writing handbook, FLOAT • Becoming Unstuck for Writers, is available in trade paperback at Central Virginia booksellers including New Dominion Bookshop, Charlottesville and Baine’s Books, Scottsville and Appomattox, as well as at Bookshop and Amazon. You can get the ebook version here and on Amazon.

FLOAT Cards for Writers

Her FLOAT Cards for Writers offer quick interventions for writers and creative people of all kinds. Boxed decks of 52 cards are available from Baine’s Books in Scottsville and Appomattox, VA, as well as from Amazon.

In other news, she’s completing a handbook for creative people, The Becoming Unstuck Journal.

Back when she was serious all the time, Anne earned a JD from the New York University School of Law, where she received an ASCAP Nathan Burkan Memorial Prize for a paper on the copyright law of minimal and conceptual art. She earned a BA with Distinction in history from Indiana University. She also attended Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, for music conservatory training. A composer, singer, and arranger, she has recorded three CDs and has edited and produced ten books for music educators. Anne lives in Charlottesville, VA.