Anne Ney is a U.S. Coast Guard veteran who grew up in Ohio and makes her home in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Her work has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in The Fourth River and the anthologies It's My Country, Too: Women's Military Stories from the American Revolution to Afghanistan and Red, White, and True: Stories from Veterans and Families, World War II to Present.  She holds a BS and MS in Biology (Georgia Southern), and BA and MFA in Writing (Eckerd College and Vermont College of Fine Arts.) She is currently refining a collection of essays about her military service.