Ann Claycomb

Ann Claycomb is the author of two fairytale-inflected novels. Her most recent, Silenced (April 2023) is a #MeToo story featuring four women who have all been assaulted by their CEO and join forces to break the fairy tale curses he has put on them to keep them quiet. Ann’s first novel, The Mermaid’s Daughter (2017) reimagines “The Little Mermaid” as a dark, multi-generational tale of love, opera, and longing for the sea. An inveterate reader of fairy tales, Ann believes in the power of Faerie, chocolate, tequila, and a good workout, in no particular order. She also wishes people would stop using the phrase “fairy tales can come true” as reassurance, because a great deal of what happens in fairy tales, especially to women, is frankly terrifying. Ann lives with her husband, children, two cats, and a mostly hairless dog in Fort Collins, Colorado.