Anastasia Blackwell

Anastasia Blackwell has written and co-produced acclaimed commercial  and promotional campaigns for major television network affiliates in San Francisco. An accomplished actress, she is a recipient of the Dean Goodman Award for outstanding achievement in theater for both lead and supporting performances in Bay Area productions, and has won accolades as a versatile voice-over artist. She received a BS in Sociology and an MA in Theater Arts. Further training includes tutelage from reknowned masters of writing and story telling in literature and film.  

Anastasia produced, directed, and performed in the film trailer for her  debut novel and created  music videos based on dramatic scenes. She has collaborated with some of the most talented filmmakers, musicians, and actors in the Bay Area and nationwide. The novel has recently been adapted to screenplay and she is  in process of negotiating film rights. Another first was the creation of a clothing and accessory line, based on the contemporary gothic/French gypsy style of the book, that had success nearly two years before the novel was published.

 Most recently she is the founder of WAM JAMS! a group founded to give writers, artists and musicians a community to collaborate and create new forms of art.  Her radio show on Blogtalkradio features author reading individual chapters and discussing themes and issues explored in novel.

In December of 2010 she was honored to be invited to join the ranks of such reknowned authors as Stephen King, John Grisham and Nora Roberts and in an auction for a character name in her next project, The Chamber of Curiosities, in a fund raiser for The First Amendment Project.

A thirst for adventure and travel has taken Anastasia on excursions all over the globe. She is an accomplished equestrian who organized the first women's polo match in Golden Gate Park, where she returned to film scenes for her book trailer. Her current passion is the flying trapeze.

Blackwell  currently resides with her two sons in the San Francisco Bay Area.