Writing the World Around Her
Annette Lucksinger is author of the guidebook Exploring Austin with Kids. She has published academic articles in Quidditas and Ecopedagogy and equally fun articles in Free Fun in Austin, Literary Mama, and Austin Family Magazine, where she served as editor.
Her guidebook won the Independent Book Publishers Association silver award for Best Indie Travel Book. It has been featured in the Austin American Statesman, St. Edward’s University Magazine, and the radio show Writing on the Air, as well as by educational organizations such as the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, AltEd Austin, and Parents’ Climate Community.
Some things you should know about Annette … she has trouble sitting still and her heart lies in writing about her environment. She is especially interested in environmental and place-based writing, in whatever shape that takes. Annette fuels her writing by wandering and wondering in the outdoors. She finds thrill in connecting seemingly disparate things to weave a good story.
Annette has taught writing and literature courses at Colorado State University and St. Edward’s University. She has been a panelist at the Greater Austin Book Fest and a guest presenter at several local organizations and kid festivals, as well as at The Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference at Colorado State University. So, you could call her a Renaissance woman of sorts.
Active in her local literary community, she is a proud member of the Writers’ League of Texas, the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, Fresh Ink, and the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. She splits her time between Austin, Texas, and Bend, Oregon.