Beautiful Bad (Ward) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—N/A
• Where—state of Kansas, USA
• Education—B.A., Uiversity of California, Los Angeles; M.F.A., American Film Institute
• Awards—(see below: for a screenplay)
• Currently—lives in Kansas


Annie Ward is a novelist with two psychological thrillers under her belt: her debut, The Making of June (2002) and Beautiful Bad (2019). Born and raised in Kansas, Ward received a B.A. in English literature from University of California-Los Angeles and an M.F.A. in film writing from the American Film Institute (AFI).

While still a student at AFI, Ward sold her sold a short screenplay, "Strange Habit" to MTV/ BFCS. It starred Adam Scott and went on to become a Grand Jury Award Winner at the Aspen Film Festival and a Sundance Festival Official Selection.

After film school, Ward followed a man to Bulgaria, where she found work as a journalist and travel writer for Fodors, as well as a script doctor for an Israeli-American film company. During her five years there, she also won a Fulbright Scholarship, "left the man, found a best friend" (a CIA agent out of Skopje, unbeknownst to Ward), wrote her first novel, and met her husband, a private military contractor.

As Ward told Publishers Weekly, she writes about what she knows, and both of her books are based on her time in Bulgaria. Her latest, Beautiful Bad, in fact, started out as a memoir before becoming a novel.

Following a stint in New York, she and her husband now live in Kansas with their children. (Adapted from the publisher various online sources.)