Annie Mack is a prize-winning fine art photoartist and the author of Badass Pix with a Cheap-Ass Camera, which includes abstracts, macros, and non-traditional perspectives as examples of creative expression through photography. She is largely self-taught; during her brief experience in formal darkroom training she spent most of her time breaking rules, botching assignments, and creating wonderfully weird images. Her electronic collage work was awarded by the Dave Brubeck Jazz Festival visual arts competition at the University of the Pacific. Her day job for the better part of 30 years was a middle-school and high school teacher of social studies and English, with additional instructing in creative writing and social activism. She is based in northern California with her husband, son and their dog Ruth Bader Ginsburg Jr.