Ann Fox Chandonnet

• Name — Ann Fox Chandonnet • Birth Name — Ann Alicia Fox • Born — 7 February 1943 • Birthplace — Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S. • Died — 23 May 2026 • Occupation — * Poet • journalist • book reviewer • culinary historian • Education — Dracut High School Lowell State College (BS) University of Wisconsin–Madison (MA) • Children — 2 • Parents — Leighton Dinsmore Fox Barbara Amelia (Cloutman) Curran

Ann Alicia Fox was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, on February 7, 1943 to Leighton Dinsmore Fox and Barbara Amelia (Cloutman) Curran. She grew up on a dairy farm in Dracut, Massachusetts and she graduated from Dracut High School, magna cum laude from Lowell State College in 1964 with a B.S. in Secondary Education and from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1965 with an M.A. in English Literature. She married Fernand “Fern” Leonce Chandonnet in 1966 and they have two sons, Yves and Alexandre. She has lived in Chugiak, Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska, Vale, North Carolina, and O'Fallon, Missouri. Her poems have appeared in anthologies and various magazines, including Permafrost, Ice Floe, Abraxas, New Kauri, MidAtlantic and Calapooya Collage. Her articles on food history have appeared in Early American Life magazine. She also had a food column in Alaska magazine. Chandonnet worked as a reporter for the now-defunct the Anchorage Times newspaper from 1982 to 1992 and the Juneau Empire from 1999 to 2002. She taught English at Kodiak High School in Alaska from 1965 to 1966 and also taught at Lowell State College in Massachusetts from 1966 to 1969. For five years she was a publicist for a small publishing office in Anchorage. From the cover to her book "Colonial Food": "Ann Chandonnet is a food historian, poet and journalist. She is a member of the Culinary Historians of Washington, D.C., and is the author of the award-winning "Gold Rush Grub" and "The Pioneer Village Cookbook." Chandonnet started cooking when she was 11 or 12 years old and was making meals for the family. In high school, she entered her jams and canned foods to the state fair. Chandonnet died on May 23, 2026, at the age of 83.

• "On a Human Scale", Ploughshares, Spring 1979 • "In Velvet," Kalliope: A Journal of Woman's Literature and Art, Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter 1980. • "Avalanche", Alaska Quarterly Review, Vol. 24, No. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2007 • Jam for the Lamb, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Summer 2008 • "Sacraments in Simple Things", Wild Goose Poetry Review, Summer 2009 • "Driving Black", Wild Goose Poetry Review, Fall 2011 • "My Mother’s Poems & My Father’s Poems", Wild Goose Poetry Review, Winter 2011 • "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning", Wild Goose Poetry Review, Fall 2012 • "Sapphic", The Dead Mule School, December 2012 • Poetry * * * * * * • Fiction * * • Non-fiction * * * * * * * * * * • Anthologies * * * * * * *