Anne Becker is a writer, teacher and former producer of literary audiocassettes and radio programming. Her book The Transmutation Notebooks: Poems in the Voices of Charles and Emma Darwin was published by Forest Woods Media in 1996. Becker’s poems have appeared in Antioch Review, Southern Poetry Review, Gargoyle Magazine, Washington Jewish Week, The Audubon Naturalist News, and other journals and anthologies. In 2007, her chapbook, The Good Body, was published by Finishing Line Press, fall, 2007. Presently, she teaches at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland, in the Poets-in-the-Schools program, and provides poetry tutorials. Since 2001 she has conducted Writing the Body, an ongoing poetry workshop for those with experience of life-threatening illness or chronic conditions, either as patients, caregivers, or family members.

For over fifteen years, she was Senior Producer of Watershed Tapes, recording cassettes of more than 50 major American and international poets reading their work, including Louise Bogan, William Carlos Williams, Jean Valentine, Czeslaw Milosz, Joseph Brodsky, and Ruth Stone. She also produced segments for several series of literary radio programs that aired on 250 stations nationwide. For the Lannan Foundation, Becker developed prototypes for a series of audiotape readings by and interviews with contemporary poets.

Her work often combines science with poetry. She has lectured at the University of Connecticut on the nature of scientific thought and at the Corcoran School of Art on aspects of the history of science. Awards include the Maryland Heritage Poetry Award and a Fellowship in Poetry from the Maryland State Arts Council. Her poems have been translated into Spanish and published in the journal Calicanto from Manzanares, Spain and she has translated from Spanish and Russian into English. Becker received her Masters degree from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. She is currently working on a series of collaborations with musicians, visual artists and dancers. She lives in Takoma Park, Maryland, with her husband and son, where she serves as Poet Laureate.

Since childhood, Becker has had to cope with a variety of illnesses and injuries: from age 9 – 19, osteomyelitis, a bone infection, originally diagnosed as cancer; during adolescence, a seizure disorder; since her 40’s ruptured and herniated discs; and most recently arthritis. She is the mother of a gifted child who struggles with learning disabilities, ADD, and depression. And she has helped her husband deal with three hip replacements, quadruple bypass surgery and a chronic endocrine condition McCune-Albright Syndrome, an orphan disease. For the past 16 years she has practiced yoga and the Feldenkrais technique.