Anne Haw Holt is a Virginian transplanted to a 1910 "Cracker" cottage in the tiny town of Monticello, Florida. She attended Piedmont Virginia Community College and received her BA from Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, VA in 1989. She holds a MA in Historical Administration and Public History and a Ph.D. in History from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. Her dissertation is on Florida's convict-lease system and prisons. Anne is an accomplished storyteller and photographer. She writes fiction, poetry, and non-fiction on history, writing and Frontier Florida. Her fiction is historically based and family friendly.