Anne Marie Wells is an award-winning poet, playwright, memoirist, and oral storyteller. She is the founder and host of The Joy of Poeting, a weekly Zoom show and emerging brand. Her debut poetry collection, Survived By: A Memoir in Verse + Other Poems, was published by Curious Corvid Publishing in April 2023. Her chapbook Mother, (v) won the 2023 Cinnamon Press Pamphlet Contest and was released in 2024. Her bilingual children’s book Mommy, Why Am I a Bird / Mamã, porque sou uma ave was published by Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra in 2015 and later featured on Wyoming PBS in 2020. In 2025, she published the coloring and activity book Underwater Explorers & Rescuers in collaboration with the global nonprofit Ethical Seafood Research as well as self-publishing a writing prompt collection titled Write Some Cool Sh!t: 366 Prompts to Rekindle Your Creativity. Her travel memoir, Happy Iceland: How Icelandic Strangers Taught a Miserable American the Secret to Lifelong Happiness, will be released by Star Belt Press in June 2026. She is a freelance copy editor, proofreader, and writing coach.