Although Annis Pratt grew up in New York City, she makes her home in the midwest, where, for many years, she taught English and  Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin.  There she canoed the Wisconsin and Kickapoo Rivers, and explored Lakes Mendota and Wingra, learning all about the percussion of coots, the signals of herons, and where mushrooms and fiddleheads can be found. Later, she moved to Michigan, where she kayaks The Betsie River. That is how she learned how dragflies mate (stuck together in a circle), why bats swim, where salmon spawn, how otters spend their evenings and how mink mothers get their kits across a the river. Her sailing and kayaking adventures provide her exuberantly detailed natural settings. Her all time favorite books are J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring series, for his plot technique of alternating between bad times and better days (catastrophes and eucatastropes) and his detailed natural settings.   Pratt's The Infinite Games series consists of:  The Marshlanders, published in paperback and E book form with I Universe in 2010  sFly Out of the Darkness,  published as a Kindle E book in 2012. The Road to Beaver Mill, published as a Kindle E Book in 2016 The Battle for the Black Fen , forthcoming with Moon Willow Press in the summer of 2017.  This page-turning series is about the struggle between an earth-loving, self-sustaining people and a cabal of merchants and ministers who want to drain their wetlands for agricultural development.

Annis Pratt's second book, Archetypal Patterns in Women's Fiction, was published in England and America and won First Prize from the Council for Wisconsin Writers. Her third book, Dancing With Goddesses, won Choice's Award for the Outstanding Academic Book of the Year. Clarissa Pinkola Estes admired it and wrote the blurb for the paperback edition.