Mary Ann Powell, Author

Hello, my name is Mary Ann Powell.  Born and raised in Washington, D. C., one of my earliest memories is of loving horses.

On my ninth birthday my dad bought Princess, a large pony, for me.  We kept her at my dad's cinderblock company in Takoma Park.  Every day after school I walked there where he helped me learn to ride.  And I did.  I rode that pony all over Northeast D.C.

When I turned twelve, I talked him into buying a horse named Bambino, a beautiful pinto mare.  She was boarded at a stable in College Park, Maryland.  Catching a streetcar on Rhode Island Avenue to College Park, I walked two blocks to the University of Maryland, and across the campus to the stable behind the school.  I loved that horse, riding every weekend, sometimes even to D.C. and back.

I met my husband, also a horseman, when I was seventeen.  We eventually married and moved to Poolesville, Maryland where we purchased a small farm.  For thirty-five years we ran and maintained a thriving horse farm where we bred, foaled, broke, trained, showed, and sold many good horses.

After my children grew older, in addition to the farm I was employed in a local high school for twenty-eight years.  Upon retiring I went right into my passion for writing which had been with me since I was a youngster.  Today, I'm the author of two published books - the first is "Emerson", an exciting novel based on a true story about a champion open jumper.  My second book, Prince Alley Em, goes into lots of exciting local horse happenings such as Polo, rescue farms, pony clubs and Combined Training.  Both my stories are fiction but based on true experiences, either my own or those of acquaintances.

If you read these books, taking you to Loafing Hills Farm in the foothills of Sugarloaf Mountain, I believe you'll enjoy the experiences.

You can read more about the books by clicking in the boxes to the right.  Both books feature the Spencer family, set on a horse farm in the foothills of Sugarloaf Mountain in Maryland.  Fast-paced family life on the farm is focused upon.

My third book, Shells Of My Heart, takes a different tack.   Based upon family life in New York City, it's a dramatic ADULT novel.   Fast paced and intriguing, it's an often surprising story with a different kind of ending.  

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