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Ann Herlong-Bodman

Ann Herlong-Bodman has worked as a reporter, taught college writing classes, and directed writing labs in journalism, business writing, and public relations.

The highlight of her career was teaching high school English, for it was in her English classroom that she felt she could make a difference.

In the 1970s, during the integration in South Carolina, in the midst of race riots and civil unrest, she was the first white teacher in her school district who voluntarily transferred to an integrated school.

In 1990, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, she volunteered to teach English as a Second Language in what was then Czechoslovakia, a remote area in the former Soviet Bloc, where she devoted her time to increasing communication and understanding between teachers in the old Soviet Bloc and those in the West.

In 2002, when the need for English as a Second Language teachers became acute in Charleston County Schools, she put aside the manuscript for Voices Over Water, came out of retirement, and taught ESL part-time.

She is the author of a travel book, In The Wake of Saints and Sinner, for which she received a fellowship from the South Carolina Academy of Authors.

Titles by Ann Herlong-Bodman

Voices Over Water
ISBN 1891799193
$24.95 / Hardback - Harbor House

Ann Herlong-Bodman In The News

--An interview with Ann Herlong-Bodman

--Voices Over Water A tale of Civil War intrigue and clashing cultures wins Golden Eye award.