Anne Alexandra Stafford, departed this life on Friday, Feb. 28, while surrounded by her family.

She was a native of Kingsport, where she was born on Aug. 2, 1961, and later moved to Memphis.

She was a 1979 graduate of Lausanne Collegiate School, earned her bachelor’s degree in English literature from her beloved University of Tennessee, and her master’s degree in English in 1985.

She attended Loyola Law School in New Orleans, taught English at the University of New Orleans from 1987- 1991, then headed north to pursue her doctorate in rhetoric and composition at the University of Pittsburgh, which she earned in 2001. [Read more…]