Annie Mackenzie is a fourth-generation rancher and part-time cowboy poet. She was born and raised in Jordan Valley, growing up on her family’s ranch just north of the small town in southeast Oregon. She spends her days helping her family tend cattle, start horses, and manage the unruly pack of border collies that inhabit the place. Annie has always had a love of the written word and the western ways of life. She’s combined the two into the cowboy poetry that she shares. Whether it’s moving cows, fixing fences, working dogs, or watching a cowboying disaster unfold, there’s a lot that happens on the ranch to inspire her poems.
