Annie Ward

Annie’s novel BEAUTIFUL BAD was published in seventeen foreign territories, nominated for best debut mystery novel at the Strand Magazine Critics Awards in 2019 and has been optioned by Sue Kroll, the producer of A STAR IS BORN to become an Amazon limited series.

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Her third novel and second psychological thriller THE LYING CLUB was released by Harper Collins/Park Row books in March 2022, and was published in several foreign territories and is available on Audible.

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Annie received a BA in English Lit with an emphasis in Creative Writing from UCLA and an MFA in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute. While studying at AFI, she sold her first short screenplay to MTV/ BFCS Productions. Starring Adam Scott and Joey Lauren Adams, STRANGE HABIT became a Grand Jury Award Winner at the Aspen Film Festival and a Sundance Festival Official Selection.

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After film school, Annie moved to Eastern Europe to work for Fodor Travel Guides, covering regions of Spain and Bulgaria. She remained in Bulgaria for five years spanning a civilian uprising and government overthrow. Her first novel THE MAKING OF JUNE, which Annie wrote with the Bulgarian revolution and Balkan crisis as its backdrop, was sold to Penguin Putnam and published to critical acclaim in 2002.

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During Annie’s five years in the Balkans she received a Fulbright Scholarship, taught at the University of Sofia, and script doctored eight screenplays for Nu-Image, an Israeli/American film company that produced a number of projects in Bulgaria for the SyFy Channel. She was later the recipient of two Escape to Create artist residencies.

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In addition to writing, she has worked as a cocktail server, tutor, soccer and gymnastics coach and publicity assistant in a major publishing house.

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She lives in San Miguel de Allende with her husband and two sons and is a contributing writer for Mexico News Daily.