Ann Elizabeth Carson, BA (hons) U of T, '51, Med U of T '70, Arscura School of Art, Toronto, ' 85 - poet, writer, sculptor, feminist, one of 'Toronto's Mille Femmes' at the 2008 Luminato Festival) which paid tribute to women who have made a contribution to the arts.

Ann leads workshops in how the arts create a new perspective on how we see ourselves and the world and enjoys reading from her work, especially with other poets, writers and artists, and with dancers and musicians in interactive multi media events - spoken word accompanied by paintings, sculptures and music.

Earlier in her career Ann was a psychotherapist focusing on expressive therapies, and also worked as a counsellor, group leader, lecturer and graduate student supervisor at York University.

A Toronto native since 1929 Ann now writes, sculpts and paints full time in Toronto and on Manitoulin Island.

Ann loves music, theatre, gardening, gallery hopping and bookstore browsing and the company of family and friends.

Poetry Awards:
- One of Toronto's Mille Femmes' for the 2008 Luminato Festival

Books in print:
- Shadows Light, Longboat Alliance Publishing, 2005, ISBN 1: 0-9737699-0-4
- My Grandmother's Hair, Publisher, EdgarKent / Dundurn, 2006, ISBN 2: 0-88866-654-3 (pbk.)
- The Risks of Remembrance, WordsIndeed Publishing, 2010, ISBN 3: 978-0-9865166-0-0
- Ann has recently completed We All Become Stories: Old Age and the Changing Experiences of Memory.

Selections and reviews of Ann's books have appeared from Maine to Manitoulin Island and Vancouver, most recently in:
- Horizons magazine (2008),
- Canadian Woman Studies/les cahier de la femme (2008/09, forthcoming in 2011)
- Exile Quarterly, 2010
- The Sudbury Star (2005/10)
- Celebrating Poets over 70, McMaster University Centre for Gerontological Studies and The Tower Poetry Society (2010)
- Monhegan Memo #6 (2010/11)
- Manitoulin Cross-pollination Two Catalogue (2010)
- The Manitoulin Expositor and The Beach Metro News (2010/11)
- The OWN Quarterly (2010),
- Island Mists, TPS, 2010.

Anthologies:
- Poet's Cove, An Anthology of Poetry ed. M. Mir, 2003/04,Publisher, Monhegan Press, Maine, USA, 2003, 2004
- Celebrating Poets Over 70, Publisher, McMaster University Centre for Gerontological Studies and the Tower Poetry Society, 2010
....ISBN 2: 978-1-894088-15-2
- Island Mists, Publisher, Poetry Institute of Canada, 2010