Co-author of Cultural Detective: Deaf Culture. Read more
Anna Mindess has worked as an American Sign
Language Interpreter for more
than 25 years.
She is the author of the ground-breaking text Reading Between the Signs which is widely used in interpreter training programs worldwide.
Anna has presented workshops all over the U.S. and Europe and has been a featured speaker at several international conferences.
She has now focused her writing talents on freelance writing for magazines and newspapers, with the goal of bringing together her two passions, food and culture.
Anna and partner Thomas Holcomb have co-produced two popular DVDs,
See What I Mean and A Sign of Respect, which aim to sensitize
viewers about contrasts between Deaf and Hearing cultures in an educational
yet entertaining manner.
She and Holcomb are co-authors of Cultural Detective: Deaf Culture. Anna also edited four other titles in the Cultural Detective series.