Ann Kammerer writes short fiction and free-verse narrative poetry. She lives in the Chicago area after relocating with her husband from her home state of Michigan. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Fictive Dream, One Art, Chiron Review, Bright Flash Literary Review, The Broken Spine, 10 by 10 Flash, Cold Caller Magazine, Blue Lake Review, Open Arts Forum, and elsewhere.

She’s been anthologized by Crow Woods Publishing, Querencia Press, and Worker’s Write! by Blue Cubicle Press, and has received top honors and been short-listed in several writing competitions, including a recent Best of the Net nomination.

Her chapbook collections include Yesterday’s Playlist (Bottlecap Press, 2023), Beaut (Kelsay Books, 2024), Friends Once There (Impspired, 2024), Someone Else (Bottlecap Press, 2024), At the Cleaners (Bottlecap Press, 2025), and Stump (Bottlecap Press, 2025).