Born in New York City, Annie earned a BA from Smith College and an MAT in Fine Arts from Harvard. She has taught drawing, painting, and book design in the Boston area, and has worked as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. She has been a mixed media painter, book artist, and jewelry designer for over 30 years. Her award-winning work is in collections in Boston, New York, Turin, Istanbul, Hungary, and Poland. She lives and works in Boston and in the Aegean costal village of Çeşme Dalyanköy in Turkey.