Anne S PowersAnne Powers is a lifelong artist, and published author. Her first creative love is watercolor, and she has received many accolades for her talent, including the American Watercolor Society Winsor-Newton Award and the Tennessee Watercolor Society's to Award of Merit. Additionally, Powers was the national top award winner in MacXibition, a digital art competition sponsored by Apple Computer and MacWorld Magazine, for which she wrote an extensive animated script. Powers has many years of service in higher education. She was the Head of the Art Department at the Roane State Community College for many years. In 2000, she wrote the curriculum for the Stanford University Digital Media program and taught there for six summers, which led to the publishing of five books on 3D Animation, used worldwide. She continues her work as a practicing artist in a wide variety of media and writing novels and poetry. Her work has appeared in numerous art exhibitions in New York City, Seattle, Chatanooga, and Nashville, among many others. In September 2024, Powers opened her own art gallery named ANNIEMEDIA in Rockwood, Tennessee. Her first novel, Smoke from Small Fires was published in 2014 by Pocahontas Press. A Book Club Edition of Smoke... is being released by the end of 2024. Powers is working on her next novel titled, The Word on the Water, of which the first three thousand words won the overall top writing award and top fiction award in the Tennessee Mountain Writers Writing Competition (made up of Appalachian writers from Connecticut to Georgia) in 2018. Read More Read Less