Ann Port was born in Macon, GA and raised in Phoenix, AZ. After graduating from Northwestern University with a major in English and a minor in history, she moved to San Diego and earned a master’s degree in social sciences. For the next twenty-four years, she taught English literature, American literature, and Advanced Placement English in the San Diego area. In 1992, when her husband accepted a job with the Boston Red Sox, he and Ann moved to Southborough, MA, a lovely New England town thirty-seven miles west of the city. Being a “baseball widow,” Ann began to travel. Her numerous trips to Europe were never, “If it’s Tuesday it must be Belgium” excursions. Rather, they were lengthy visits to many of Europe’s major cities and the surrounding countryside. During her travels, Ann chronicled her experiences in detailed diaries, upon which the locales in her mystery novels are based. In 2012, when her husband retired from baseball, they moved to Gilbert AZ where she continues to write.