Ansie Baird holds degrees from Vassar College and SUNY Amherst where she received her MA in English and won first prize in the University’s Academy of American Poets contest.  She is Poet in Residence and a part-time English teacher at The Buffalo Seminary, a non-sectarian secondary school in Buffalo, where she has taught for the past thirty-five years. She is an editor for Earth's Daughters literary magazine, the longest-running women's publication in the country.  She has also taught for Just Buffalo Literary Center in their Writers In Education program, conducting workshops in elementary, middle and high schools in the Buffalo area, and was an original member of the Albright-Knox collaborative docent program entitled: A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words.  She was the Poet in Residence at The Chautauqua Institute in August 2010 where she taught a week-long writing workshop, delivered a poetry reading to the public and gave a talk on poetics and her personal literary influences to the Institute.  Her work has been published in The Paris Review, Western Humanities Review, The Southern Review, The Denver Quarterly, Poetry Northwest, The South Dakota Review, The Quarterly, The Recorder, Earth's Daughters and a number of other journals.

Ansie Baird has given readings at The Burchfield Center, Just Buffalo, Nietzsche's, University at Buffalo, Nichols School, The Buffalo Seminary, Williamsville East, The Church  (Hallwalls), the East Aurora Public Library, The Olean Public Library,  Insite Gallery, Vassar College, the U. of Hawaii, Trinity Church, The Garret Club and numerous other local and not so local venues.  In 2008, her book In Advance Of All Parting won the White Pine Press 14th annual national poetry competition and has been published by White Pine Press, August, 2009.  In 2010 she was a Poet In Residence at The Chautauqua Institute for one week, giving daily poetry workshops, a poetry reading and a poetics lecture to the general public.