Ann Fox Chandonnet

Ann Fox Chandonnet (born Ann Alicia Fox; February 7, 1943 – May 23, 2026) was an American poet, journalist, book reviewer and culinary historian. to Leighton Dinsmore Fox and Barbara Amelia (Cloutman) Curran. She grew up on a dairy farm in Dracut, Massachusetts and she graduated from Dracut High School, magna cum laude from Lowell State College in 1964 with a B.S. in Secondary Education and from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1965 with an M.A. in English Literature. She married Fernand “Fern” Leonce Chandonnet in 1966 and they have two sons, Yves and Alexandre. and O'Fallon, Missouri.

Her poems have appeared in anthologies and various magazines, including Permafrost, Ice Floe, Abraxas, New Kauri, MidAtlantic and Calapooya Collage. Her articles on food history have appeared in Early American Life magazine. She also had a food column in Alaska magazine.

Chandonnet worked as a reporter for the now-defunct the Anchorage Times newspaper

Chandonnet died on May 23, 2026, at the age of 83.

Selected works "On a Human Scale", Ploughshares, Spring 1979 "In Velvet," Kalliope: A Journal of Woman's Literature and Art, Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter 1980. "Avalanche", Alaska Quarterly Review, Vol. 24, No. 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2007 Jam for the Lamb, Wild Goose Poetry Review, Summer 2008 "Sacraments in Simple Things", Wild Goose Poetry Review, Summer 2009 "Driving Black", Wild Goose Poetry Review, Fall 2011 "My Mother’s Poems & My Father’s Poems", Wild Goose Poetry Review, Winter 2011 "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning", Wild Goose Poetry Review, Fall 2012 "Sapphic", The Dead Mule School, December 2012

Poetry

Fiction

Non-fiction

Anthologies