In 2004 Ann Carli retired from a twenty-seven-year career as Dean of Arts and Letters at MiraCosta College in Oceanside, California. Prior to her career as an administrator, she taught courses in Sociology, Psychology, Women’s Studies and Communication. Her poetry has been published in Tidepools, the college literary journal.
She lives in Carlsbad where she finds flow interplaying with her grandson, creating an every-changing garden, and rearranging words into short stories, poetry, and a novel.