Ann Leary was born in Syracuse, New York, and lived in various towns throughout the northeast and midwestern United States before her family settled in Marblehead, Massachusetts. She attended Bennington College and Emerson College. She is the author of the memoir, An Innocent, A Broad (Morrow, 2004) and the novel Outtakes from a Marriage (Shaye Areheart, 2008), with another novel forthcoming from St. Martin’s.