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Annmarie Kelly-Harbaugh is the author of Here Be Dragons: A Parent’s Guide to Rediscovering Purpose, Adventure and the Unfathomable Joy of the Journey, a memoir about the wonderful misery of raising children with someone you love. She is also the host of Wild Precious Life, a literary podcast about making the most of the time we have. 

In 2024, she spent two weeks in blissful solitude in a hotel finishing a novel as one of two winners of A Hotel Room of One’s Own: The Erma Bombeck | Anna Lefler Humorist-in-Residence Program. Read about her experience.

Annmarie teaches at Ashland University, and her essays have appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered, in Today Parenting, The Black Fork Review, The Gordon Square Review, Anodyne, Huffington Post and the New York Observer. In her non-writing moments, Annmarie loves kickboxing, karaoke, hound dogs, ping-pong, books that make her laugh, movies that make her cry and salads other people make her eat. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where she is currently querying a novel about all the truth in the lies we tell.