About Ana

With a creative and business writing background, Hays’ writing has appeared in Chicken Soup for the Adopted Soul, Walnut Creek Magazine, Sybase Magazine and other publications. She is the former columnist and associate publisher of Maui Vision Magazine. Additionally Hays has worked with and promoted best-selling author Alan Cohen, as well as inspirational authors and motivational speakers such as Dr. Wayne Dyer and Sonja Choquette.

Hays is currently the director of marketing communications for Hospice of the Valley in San Jose, California. Previously, she worked in academia where she led executive education programs and fund development events at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Stanford Law School. For Hewlett-Packard Company and Agilent Technologies she managed the internal employee volunteer fundraising campaigns.

Additionally, Hays is an Amherst Writers & Artists Affiliate, has studied with authors Laura Davis, Pamela Des Barres and Ellen Sussman.and leads creative writing workshops in Menlo Park, California; at WomenCare a non-profit organization in Santa Cruz dedicated to offering a safe haven for women who are making the cancer journey; and for SPARK where she inspires students to follow their dreams of becoming a published writer.

She resides in Menlo Park, California.