Dr Mary Annie A. V., (M,Sc., Ph.D) writes under the pen name Anna Maria. She has been recipient of the Shanker’s International prize in writing at the age of five for her poem titled
My Brother, which was subsequently published in the
Illustrated Weekly of India. She has been an announcer for the All India Radio English
Yuvavani programmes for nearly ten years during her college career and has done several features for the English sections of
Yuvavani, AIR, Trivandrum. Though her subject is Zoology, her life is writing and literature and to her the simplest definition of Poem is :
Virgin white paper
Raped
Rapt.
She has been hugely acclaimed online and her poems have been published in
Mirror, several anthologies in USA, U.K. and in e-zine magazines, India and abroad. She has been featured in Jes Führmann’s
“The Diary of Pink Pearl, A Bird’s Eye View” released by Bookstand Publishing 2013. (First trilogy in America about a Moluccan cockatoo.),
She has also been featured in
The Camel Saloon, Destiny Poet’s, The Little Child Magazine, Muse India, Indian Ruminations, The Plum Tree Books, No Nothing Nowhere, The Origami Publications, The Indian Ruminations, The Taj Mahal Review, The Gulmohar Magazine, Musings: A Mosaic Thanal Online, and many more. Her poems have been translated into Malayalam, Brazil, Arabic, Greek, Russian and French.
At present she works in the University of Kerala and resides in Trivandrum with her husband and three children. She also comperes for the Gyanvani FM, Trivandrum.
She has two published collections of poems :
My Beads Unstrung. by Poetree Garden, Trivandrum (2006) and
More Beads Unstrung, by Roots and Wings,(2011).
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