WordsWomen Press, LLC is a publishing imprint founded by Annette Marquis in 2024. It's purpose is to provide a home for indie-published books and other writing that focus on women's lives. 

Annette Marquis is a community builder, wanderer, and author of two memoirs, Living Into the Truth: A Daughter's Journey of Discovery (available in print and eBook formats), and Accidental Mentors: Inspirational Stories of Women Who Shaped My Life by Just Being Themselves (coming soon), and one short-form memoir, Resistance: A Memoir of Civil Disobedience in Maricopa County. In a past life, she co-authored over twenty-five software books, mostly about Microsoft Office. She recently retired from the Living Legacy Project, Inc and lives with her wife, Wendy, in Richmond, Virginia, USA.

My enchantment with stories and poetry began in rural northern New Jersey where I grew up. On a granite outcropping in the woods or under the black walnut tree in our front yard, I'd dig a stubby pencil and small, bent spiral notebook out of my pocket and jot down short poems about nature. Writing lets me capture the wonder around me, and the pain, and to work through things that are on my mind.

I’m the author of Beautiful Machinery and an unpublished documentary poetry manuscript about Grace Arents, a Progressive-era philanthropist and educator, and her companion, Mary Garland Smith. Over the years, my poems have appeared in Rust + Moth, Cider Press Review, Commonplace, the museum of americana, and elsewhere. I’ve also co-edited Poems from the Wellspring and written and edited for professional library publications. I’m grateful to all the mentors, colleagues, and writing friends who’ve encouraged, taught, and inspired me.