Anne-Marie Oomen was recently awarded the Michigan Author Award for Lifetime Achievement, 2023-24. Her book As Long as I Know You: The Mom Book won AWP’s Sue William Silverman Nonfiction Award (University of Georgia Press), a Michigan Notable Book Award, and a silver IPPY award. The Long Fields, from Cornerstone Press, is a just released retrospective: collected essays and shorts. Other titles include Love, Sex and 4-H, (Next Generation Indie Award for memoir); Pulling Down the Barn and House of Fields, (Michigan Notable Books)—all focused on rural Michigan culture; also An American Map: Essays, and a collection of poetry, Uncoded Woman (Milkweed Editions).

She co-wrote The Lake Michigan Mermaid with poet, Linda Nemec Foster (Michigan Notable Book 2019), and The Lake Huron Mermaid is forthcoming in 2024. She edited Elemental: A Collection of Michigan Nonfiction (Michigan Notable Book), and Looking Over My Shoulder: Reflections on the Twentieth Century (A Michigan Humanities Council Project).

She has written seven plays, including award-winning Northern Belles (inspired by oral histories of women farmers), and Secrets of Luuce Talk Tavern, winner of the CTAM contest.

She is founding editor of Dunes Review, former president and current board member of Michigan Writers, and serves as instructor at Solstice MFA in Creative Writing at Lasell University (MA) and at Interlochen College of Creative Arts. She appears at conferences throughout the country.

She and her husband, David Early, have built their handmade home on wild acreage formerly stewarded by the tribes of the Three Fires Confederacy near Empire, Michigan, and beloved Lake Michigan.