Ann B. Dobie is professor emerita of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where she directed graduate studies in rhetoric and the University's writing-across-the-curriculum program. She is the author (or co-author) of five college writing textbooks, compiler and editor of three Louisiana literary anthologies (including Wide Awake in the Pelican State), and the author of numerous articles on literature and composition. Her latest books are Fifty-Eight Days in the Cajundome Shelter, an account of the relief efforts in Lafayette following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and a second edition of Theory into Practice: An Introduction to Literary Criticism. For thirteen years she served as director of the National Writing Project of Acadiana. She is now State Coordinator of the Louisiana Writing Project and a consultant to the National Writing Project.
Civil Changes: Civil Service in Louisiana by 
Fifty-Eight Days in the Cajundome Shelter by 
Uncommonplace, An Anthology of Contemporary Louisiana Poets by 
Voices from Louisiana by 
Wide Awake in the Pelican State: Stories by Contemporary Louisiana Writers by 