General-audience and creative writing

Annie's Peregrinations, Substack, as of July 2025. Personal essays and flash pieces, https://substack.com/@annierehill/posts.

"My Inner Ms. Natural Fought with the Mirror; The Mirror Won," Next Avenue, January 11, 2024, https://www.nextavenue.org/my-inner-natural-mirror-won/.

"Telling an Emotional Truth," The Writer's Center Magazine, winter-spring 2024, 37-38, https://writer.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/TWC-Magazine_WISP2024_final_web.pdf.  

[long hiatus to focus on academic research and writing!]

Four popular-culture essays written for ABC-CLIO’s Academic Solutions website, used as a teaching tool for writing. Essays include “Christian Majority, Pluralist Nation.” Daily Life through History database, ABC-CLIO, 2012. 

“Embroidery of Place,” Stitches, February 2011, 18-20, 23.  Stories about professional embroiderers.

“The Mentor: Melanie Coakley, Embroidery FX,” Stitches, July 2010, 38.

The Apocalypse Is Everywhere: A Popular History of America’s Favorite Nightmare (Praeger/ABC-CLIO, 2009). The book traces how, as a Western culture, we have inherited an apocalyptic mindset that often permeates even the environmental movement.

“Lighting Up the Season: Is Your Tree Invasive?” Chesapeake, winter 2007-08, 14-15. Article in Sierra Club's Maryland chapter newsletter.

“O Tannenbaum: The Good, the Bad, and the Alternatives,” Chesapeake, December 2005. Sierra Club.

“Assisting Science,” Potomac Review, no. 37 (2004), 90-100. Creative writing, nonfiction.

“The Drug Run,” New Millennium Writings (1999), 82-96. Creative writing competition, first place nonfiction.

Research Penn State, 1996-99: articles about research activities at the Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pa.

Stars in the Corps: Movie Actors in the United States Marines, coauthored with James E. Wise Jr. (Naval Institute Press, 1999).

Stars in Blue: Movie Actors in America’s Sea Services, coauthored with James E. Wise Jr. (Naval Institute Press, 1997).