Anne M. Breedlove is the sixth of ten children born and raised in Albany, New York. Visiting San Francisco during a cross-country road trip in 1972, she decided to stay. After spending 10 years fitting in as much cycle travel as they could, retiring from academia in 2008 she spent eight years traveling the world with her husband by loaded bicycle. She now happily juggles her time between art, bicycling, all things French, gardening, grandchildren, hot yoga, lap-swimming, printmaking, sewing, walking, and writing, but not necessarily in that order.