
anne • sikking
Society of Authors • Royal Society of Literature • Federation Writers Scotland
Poet Laureate 2021/2022 - TESS - Los Angeles • founding Chair Glasgow's City of Poets
Listed among City of York's100 influential women 1918-2018
BIO
I write.
My first published poem appeared in 1972 in Messenger of Love, edited by Jamaican thinker Wildorf E Goodison-Orr.
I cook.
I longed for spatulas and pans even before I could lift them. Shared food balances writing.
I quilt.
Making a whole out of fragments satisfies.
I parent.
Raising children, not all of my own making, has been an education.
My life has been charmed and blessed. I am fortunate to be here, to have lived well, met many people, and been to many places.
My beginnings were not so happy. I was an abandoned child of mixed heritage. In 2012, although parents and country were lost to me I was able to recover my name. With one grandparent born on the rez, another a descendant of the Trail of Tears, what marked them also marked those of us who followed.
Yet I was gathered up by some extraordinary people, to whom I owe the stable platform upon which all else has been built.
Sometimes blood has nothing to do with love at all.

In 2012 Anne recovered her birth name, Roanne Sikking.
She now uses
Anne Sikking and A. Sikking for all of her work.