Weathering, Ann Zell's first full collection, celebrates old friends and tough women; explores the complexities of family relations. An American, Ann Zell has lived as a voluntary exile for over half her life. Not identifying herself either as an irish or an American poet, she ranges back and forth between times and places, childhood and middle age, Idaho and Ireland. The attachment is to particular people, particular landscapes. The collection's title 'Weathering' relates to resistance, fighting back, holding on, living through; natural things and people continuing to exist.

The only girl in a large Mormon family, Ann Zell was born and raised on a potato farm in Idaho. After years of schooling, mothering, casual jobs and radical politics at street level, she began writing seriously in her early fifties during a stint as a medical secretary in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. She lived in New York and London before settling in West Belfast in 1980. She is a member of the Word of Mouth poetry collective, and her work has been published in many publications, including, Virago New Poets, The Atlanta Review, Word of Mouth (Blackstaff), and Poetry Ireland Review.

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