When Anna was in fourth grade, her friend Julie McGrath drew this picture of her. The caption said "ANNA THE OPERA SINGER" because that was what Anna's mom did and Anna was much too loud in choir and bragged about her voice to everyone she knew. She thought, "wouldn't it be ironic if I did become an opera singer?" Anna used the word ironic a lot in fourth grade because the Alanis Morissette song was very popular.

Like all good teenagers, Anna started writing a notebook full of songs when she turned fifteen on her super-glued-together guitar, most of which sounded like Jewel. Anna knew about five chords. A year or two later she joined a funk band, put some growl into her voice, and started writing with three boys, which made sure that nothing sounded like Jewel. When the time came she decided that she should do the only thing she knew how & attend Carnegie Mellon University for vocal performance. After exploring very different facets of music and creating her own major in college, Anna wrote & produced her first studio album, Some Kind of Parade in 2005, publishing it with the help of a village of classical, jazz, and non-musician friends. With it she mish-mashed all of the music that had influenced her into a sound which still waits to fit one particular genre, thus far being accurately described as, "unavoidably soulful". While expanding her own work and collaborating with others, Anna began spending summers in different cities and sharing bills with the talented friends she made there. She also got to perform as a vocalist with some friends from home, The Dresden Dolls, all around the country, notably at Lollapalooza 2006 & on NPR"s World Cafe with David Dye. In 2007, she wrote and produced her sophomore album, The Things That Airplanes Do, mastered at Capitol Records by Ron McMaster (Diana Krall, The Beach Boys, Gwen Stefani) and had it printed up like a real person. The album served as a capstone for her major’s requirements and with it Anna earned a BFA in Creative Music Production in May, 2007. Currently, she's "living the dream" in Chicago, looking for bandmates & writing sad (but sometimes happy) songs in her bedroom - pretty much back at where it all started. Unfortunately, every time she uses the word ironic she still gets the Alanis Morissette song stuck in her head.