Anne Schroeder

Winner of the 2019 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Historical Romance, Anne Schroeder describes herself as a calorically-challenged Aphrodite with an unmistakable fervor for life. Second of seven children, she was born in Ventura County, California, the subject of her recently re-released memoir, Branches on the Conejo Revisited.

She graduated from Cal Poly, SLO, with a husband and toddler in the first wave of the Sexual Revolution. Her memoir, Ordinary Aphrodite, is an adventure tale about a life of small steps. Her fiction and memoir have appeared in magazines and anthologies.

She is active in Women Writing the West and Western Writers of America. Her Central Coast Series, including Cholama Moon and Maria Ines, features well researched, character-driven novels about California in the Time of the Spanish, Mexican and American conquests.

She and her husband moved from the Central Coast of California to Southern Oregon in search of adventure. She has a happy husband, two darling granddaughters and two lazy dogs.