Anne Bokma is an award-winning freelance journalist and the author of My Year of Living Spiritually: From Woo-Woo to Wonderful—One Woman's Secular Quest for a More Soulful Life published by Douglas & McIntyre in October 2019 and winner of two Hamilton Literary Awards in 2020.

As a journalist, she has reported on the legal challenges of the Sixties Scoop, interviewed tiny house dwellers who have said goodbye to mortgage payments, gone undercover in a popular Toronto sex club, written about how she found a brother she never knew she had, and how she finally learned to stop being a helicopter mom.

As a travel writer, she's gone swimming in Thoreau's iconic Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, tried out living at North American's oldest commune in Virginia, talked with the dead at the psychic town of Lily Dale in New York State, and biked around Schiermonnikoog, a quirky island with a notorious past in the northern Netherlands.

Anne is a memoir coach who helps clients to write the stories of their lives and helps them get published. She runs international as well as Canadian retreats and workshops and is also the founder of the 6-Minute Memoir “Speed Storytelling For a Cause” event, which features storytellers sharing tales on a common theme within a strict six-minute time limit. The event was launched in 2013 in her hometown of Hamilton, Ontario.

Her work has been honored with awards from the Canadian Association of Journalists, the North American Travel Journalists Association, the Canadian Church Press, the U.S. Associated Church Press, the Canadian Society of Magazine Editors, the Canadian Business Press Media Association, Rogers Media, the Travel Media Association of Canada and the Hamilton Independent Media Awards.

In 2020, she received a City of Hamilton’s Arts Award for her work as a writer and in 2025 she was nominated for a prestigious Landsberg Award from the Canadian Journalism Foundation.