Anne's bio (printable)
For someone who spent her first 21 years in one place (Tucson, Arizona), Anne Broyles sure has moved around a lot! She left Tucson the day after graduating from the University of Arizona to backpack in Europe and the U. K. for seven months. When she returned to the U.S., Anne moved to Chicago to attend Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary and lived/studied in Illinois, Iowa, Peru, Mexico and Michigan during those four years. She also married another world traveler while doing graduate work. Anne received her Masters of Divinity and was ordained as a United Methodist minister. The next move? Back across the country to pastor a church in southeast Los Angeles. Five years later, Anne and her family drove 2,700 miles to spend a sabbatical year living with Quakers near Philadelphia. After that, another move back across the nation (do you see a trend here?) to California to co-pastor a United Methodist congregation in Malibu. For twenty years, Anne enjoyed seeing dolphins and whales, boogie boarding and hiking. She also traveled extensively around the world. After an emergency operation saved her life and gave her 8 days in the hospital to ponder life options, Anne retired from church work and began to write full time.
Then it was back across the entire United States—AGAIN!—to live on the east coast. Foxes, groundhogs, deer and hundreds of birds now provided entertainment and Anne kayaked almost every day in spring and fall. In 2016, Anne and her husband moved back to the West coast, this time to Portland, Oregon, where she enjoys hikes to waterfalls and up mountain peaks. Anne loves the desert, the ocean, the forest, the mountains—everywhere she has lived.
Anne’s writing career began while she was still a minister with magazine articles, curriculum for kids and youth, and numerous books in Christian spirituality. In the kid lit field, she published SHY MAMA’S HALLOWEEN, PRISCILLA AND THE HOLLYHOCKS, ARTURO AND THE NAVIDAD BIRDS and ARTURO AND THE BIENVENIDO FEAST. I'M GONNA PAINT: RALPH FASANELLA, ARTIST OF THE PEOPLE was published in 2023 and EATING TO SAVE THE PLANET will come out in 2025. Scholastic will publish WORDS SPOKEN TRUE, a middle grade historical novel about the Cherokee Trail of Tears in 2026.
She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, one dog and two cats. She continues to travel the world and some of her favorite experiences include hiking to Bhutan’s Tiger’s Nest Monastery, kissing a baby Gray Whale in Baja California (Mexico), hiking to Machu Picchu (Peru), helping reroof a church in Cuba, touring castles in France, hiking the Grand Canyon Rim to Rim, and watching pink river dolphins on an Amazonian tributary in Bolivia.
For someone who spent her first 21 years in one place (Tucson, Arizona), Anne Broyles sure has moved around a lot! She left Tucson the day after graduating from the University of Arizona to backpack in Europe and the U. K. for seven months. When she returned to the U.S., Anne moved to Chicago to attend Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary and lived/studied in Illinois, Iowa, Peru, Mexico and Michigan during those four years. She also married another world traveler while doing graduate work. Anne received her Masters of Divinity and was ordained as a United Methodist minister. The next move? Back across the country to pastor a church in southeast Los Angeles. Five years later, Anne and her family drove 2,700 miles to spend a sabbatical year living with Quakers near Philadelphia. After that, another move back across the nation (do you see a trend here?) to California to co-pastor a United Methodist congregation in Malibu. For twenty years, Anne enjoyed seeing dolphins and whales, boogie boarding and hiking. She also traveled extensively around the world. After an emergency operation saved her life and gave her 8 days in the hospital to ponder life options, Anne retired from church work and began to write full time.
Then it was back across the entire United States—AGAIN!—to live on the east coast. Foxes, groundhogs, deer and hundreds of birds now provided entertainment and Anne kayaked almost every day in spring and fall. In 2016, Anne and her husband moved back to the West coast, this time to Portland, Oregon, where she enjoys hikes to waterfalls and up mountain peaks. Anne loves the desert, the ocean, the forest, the mountains—everywhere she has lived.
Anne’s writing career began while she was still a minister with magazine articles, curriculum for kids and youth, and numerous books in Christian spirituality. In the kid lit field, she published SHY MAMA’S HALLOWEEN, PRISCILLA AND THE HOLLYHOCKS, ARTURO AND THE NAVIDAD BIRDS and ARTURO AND THE BIENVENIDO FEAST. I'M GONNA PAINT: RALPH FASANELLA, ARTIST OF THE PEOPLE was published in 2023 and EATING TO SAVE THE PLANET will come out in 2025. Scholastic will publish WORDS SPOKEN TRUE, a middle grade historical novel about the Cherokee Trail of Tears in 2026.
She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, one dog and two cats. She continues to travel the world and some of her favorite experiences include hiking to Bhutan’s Tiger’s Nest Monastery, kissing a baby Gray Whale in Baja California (Mexico), hiking to Machu Picchu (Peru), helping reroof a church in Cuba, touring castles in France, hiking the Grand Canyon Rim to Rim, and watching pink river dolphins on an Amazonian tributary in Bolivia.