Mary Ann Sternberg: writer and author

Writing has become my passion over the past thirty years. I'm inspired by the diverse and fascinating culture of Louisiana, as well as my travels across the country and around the world.

My byline has appeared in Saveur, Smithsonian, Travel & Leisure, Southern Accents, Kiwanis Magazine, and Moment magazine, among others, as well as in The New York Times travel section, the Dallas Morning News, and the New Orleans Times Picayune. I am especially proud of a series I initiated and wrote for Baton Rouge's daily newspaper, The Advocate. It was called Among Us: Stories from the community, inspired by a seminar I took at the Poynter Institute.
My four nonfiction books are: Along the River Road, Winding Through Time, The Pelican Guide to Louisiana and the Southern Bride's Notebook.

I've taught a semester of feature writing at Lousisiana State University and one week, on two separate occasions,in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia amd conversational English to teenagers in rural Poland.

I have a B.A. in English from Vassar College and am a member of the Authors Guild and the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA). I work part-time at the LSU School of Mass Communication, have served as a panelist at the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival and the Louisiana Festival for the Book, as a speaker at the Mississippi River Heritage Conference, as an on-camera commentator for a TNN documentary on the River Road, and as keynote speaker at the LSU Writing Across the Curriculum conference.