Anna Maria Basquez is a Denver native and journalist with 13 years of newspaper reporting experience in California and Colorado. She has written for The (Grand Junction) Daily Sentinel, Santa Cruz (Calif.) Sentinel, The (Fort Collins) Coloradoan, Greeley Tribune, Rocky Mountain News and Denver Catholic Register.

She has covered El Nino as the Mid-County & Beach Reporter in California, the recession as a Business Reporter on Colorado's Western Slope, and dining as the Restaurant Critic in the eatery-rich Fort Collins, Colo. She enjoyed fashion and entertainment writing in Fort Collins, and chasing fire stories and writing a popular business gossip column in Grand Junction. She became the first and only female daily journalist to review Madonna's first Colorado concert in 2008. Her passions are writing about fashion, arts, business, religion and history. She has degrees in both journalism and accounting.

Her work has appeared in USA Today, the Society of American Baseball Research book, "Above the Fruited Plains: A History of Baseball in the Rocky Mountain West," and New Mobility Magazine. She was in on the ground floor of helping build and write for the first state agency news Web site with the Colorado Division of Wildlife, and helped revamp Colorado Department of Revenue's online presence.

She holds three professional journalism awards for daily news reporting. She freelances for the Denver Catholic Register and The (Boulder) Daily Camera. She loves painting abstracts and skiing, and is always planning her next pilgrimage to holy lands.