Angela Bier
Angie is a former pediatrician, mother, and a Wisconsinite from birth. Her interests run the gamut from genealogy to the obsessive collecting of perennials, from pilates to creative napping. Voices is her second book, the first was a work of nonfiction genealogical mystery titled The Accidental Archivist. She is a member of AllWriters Workplace & Workshop and a member of the Door County Published Authors Collective. She lives between Franklin and Gills Rock, Wisconsin, with her husband, two daughters, and two dogs.
Fiction
Voices
2025, Black Rose Writing
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When Elena moves to small-town Belvedere her junior year, she worries about fitting her high-achieving self into a new small-town school. When she starts hearing voices, the challenges wildly multiply. Told from the points of view of Elena, her mother, and a new frenemy named Kat, Voices explores relationships between women and the stories we tell ourselves--with a dash of magical realism thrown in.
Elena Tannin quickly fits in, but falters when she starts hearing voices. She must confront the weirdness when one of the voices is Kat’s, and she begins answering Kat back using only her mind. Kat harbors a psychic gift, the Talent, shared among a secret group of women and passed from moms to daughters. Kat determines that Elena doesn’t know about the Talent, is falling apart under the weight of her gift run amok, and needs her help. Why hasn’t Elena’s mother, Meghan, taught her about the Talent? To logical Meghan, Elena’s issues sound like the schizophrenia that lurks in her husband’s shadowy past.
Secrets are slowly revealed, and the women must determine how much of the truth to share. Told from the alternating perspectives of Elena, Meghan, and Kat, Voices is a coming of age story told through the lens of magical realism.
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Nonfiction
The Accidental Archivist
2022, Moonshine Cove Press
Finding Kathleen’s biological father should have been easy; he was a priest somewhere in Angie’s family tree. The problem? There were seven potential priests. Family history, modern genetics, and well-kept secrets collide as Angie Bier is drawn into a search for a stranger’s birth father hidden somewhere in her own family tree. The search leads to dusty archives, clues hidden in plain sight, and the cutting edge of commercial genetic testing.
Children's
Bower Bird's Blue Book
2022, Ingramspark Publishing
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Bower birds build elaborate nests, often decorated with found objects in a single color. In this story, an enthusiastic, but misguided bower bird discovers a painter's box filled with different blue paints. He sets about trying to redecorate the entire landscape in various shades of blue, from indigo to zaffer, a different shade and subject in each stanza. The adult reader and younger listener will both learn new words and shades of blue as the misguided bower bird ultimately learns that he can't redecorate the whole world to his liking, and that the bits of blue found naturally in the landscape are, therefore, all the more precious.