Anne Becker

Background

Anne was born December 19, 1963, in Denver, Colorado, United States, daughter of Harold T. (a psychiatrist) and Ingrid (an indexer; maiden name, Haymaker) Becher.

Education

Anne graduated from Carleton College with B.A (magna cum laude) in 1987; she also studied at University of Colorado and received M.A in 1992.

Career

Anne first worked at University of Colorado, Boulder, as an instructor in Spanish, 1989, 1990-92. Later, she interrupted her work, but returned, and since 1996 continued to work at the university. Later she held the position of co-chairperson of board of directors at New Horizons Cooperative Preschool 1998-99. From 1986 she has been working at the literary magazine Underground Forest/La Selva Subterranea.

Achievements

• Anne Becher is mostly known as co-editor and co-publisher of the literary magazine Underground Forest/La Selva Subterranea. She also has been working scrutinously on a biographical dictionary of American environmental leaders, it includes four-hundred short biographies of historical and contemporary figures.
  
  

Works

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• book

  • American Environmental Leaders 2 Vol Set
  • The New Key to Costa Rica
  • Biodiversity: A Reference Handbook

Views

Quotations: "Having been concerned about the environment and social justice for as long as I can remember, I try to write on these topics or to integrate these issues into whatever I am writing. In The New Key to Costa Rica, Beatrice Blake and I cover all types of tourism, but our hearts are really in ecotourism and community-based tourism. We wrote and carried an extensive ‘sustainable tourism’ survey, in order to recognize lodges that were devoted to conservation, providing good jobs to local people, and sustaining Costa Rica’s fragile culture. The lodges that scored high in these three areas were given a star in our book. Our hope is that, by steering our readers to those places, conservation and sustainable development will be given an extra boost.''

''My master’s degree is in Hispanic languages, and I teach Spanish because I enjoy doing it. It’s much less solitary than writing! It also provides me with a more dependable income. I enjoy the diversity of devoting my work time to both writing and teaching, but it’s hard to be doing both in addition to raising my two kids and working with my husband to maintain our home.''

Membership

Anne was a member of National Writers Union, Phi Beta Kappa.

Interests

• gardening, yoga, music

Connections

On August 16, 1987 Anne married Joseph J. Richey. Their children are Jacob Swan and Flora Sol.

Father:

Harold T. Becher

Mother:

Ingrid Becher

Spouse:

Joseph J. Richey

coworker:

Beatrice Blake

References

• Contemporary Authors, Vol. 181