Ann Goethe

Ann Goethe is the founder of the Blacksburg New School, which is celebrating its 45th anniversary. Her novel, MIDNIGHT LEMONADE, was a Finalist for the Barnes and Nobel "Discovery Prize" and was published in Germany, Sweden, Israel and Korea. She is a published playwright and her poems, essays and short stories have appeared in numerous journals and magazines such as The Southern Review, Bark, Inkwell, The New Orleans Review. Goethe wrote the libretto for TRAVELS, an opera performed by Opera...See more

Ann Goethe is the founder of the Blacksburg New School, which is celebrating its 45th anniversary. Her novel, MIDNIGHT LEMONADE, was a Finalist for the Barnes and Nobel "Discovery Prize" and was published in Germany, Sweden, Israel and Korea. She is a published playwright and her poems, essays and short stories have appeared in numerous journals and magazines such as The Southern Review, Bark, Inkwell, The New Orleans Review. Goethe wrote the libretto for TRAVELS, an opera performed by Opera Roanoke, she has also written more than twenty plays for young people. The National Association of Secondary School Principals made COMING OF AGE, Goethe's musical about middle school children, into a film. Goethe is active with the ReNew The New River committee, and the Giles Early Childhood Education Project. She is a member of the performance group, "Loose Threads." She resides in Virginia, with her husband, on a peninsula encircled by the ancient New River. See less