About the Author

Ann Marie Hancock is an award-winning journalist, radio personality, and talk show host of various documentaries and television programs where she met the likes of Aba Eban, Alan Alda, Eva Gabor, Michael Landon, the Dalai Lama, Mary Higgins Clark, John Belushi, Minnie Pearl and many more.

She broke the glass ceiling at WRVA Radio in 1965 while a student at the University of Richmond, as the station’s first female news reporter. She had a reputation as a hard-nosed journalist, always after facts and credible sources, always asking the difficult questions, so it was with some astonishment that she heard about the Marian Apparitions in Medjugorje, Yugoslavia. She traveled there, spending a week questioning the “miracles”. The scientific studies on the visionaries were incredible, but well documented. What she discovered, changed her life.

Ann Marie traveled the world speaking about the power of God’s healing love. She was encouraged by Og Mandino, whom she met in her television days. She was interviewed for Heavens’ Touch, a healing documentary for PAX television. “My consistent message is there is One God; he did not divide us; we divided ourselves. We are all made in his image and likeness; we are all miracles.”

Hancock is no stranger to tragedy. She and her husband lost their second child shortly after birth from hyaline membrane disease. Her older daughter has Multiple Sclerosis. And Hancock herself faced death on her 50th birthday when her heart stopped and she had to be revived. When her mother was diagnosed with cancer, Hancock kept a journal for three-years with reflections on her sojourn. The journal evolved into book form because Hancock wanted to share the vital and unanticipated lessons she learned.

Hancock considers herself blessed and believes in giving back. She has served on the Boards of Virginia Goodwill Industries, Pediatric Infusion, the Virginia Wildlife Festival, and The James River Association, which ensures the health and reputation of the historic James River. She served on the Parents Council of The Virginia Military Institute, co-chaired the State Catholic Concilium on Education, has worked extensively with the Make a Wish Foundation, and hosted the first Miss Virginia Wheelchair Pageant. Hancock has received awards from the Virginia Rehabilitation Association, and The Breath of Life Award from The American Red Cross.

Ann Marie Hancock lives in Virginia with her husband Tom, a retired nationally recognized attorney in health and hospital law, consistently listed in Best Lawyers in America. Ann Marie is passionate about her four grandchildren, and involved at her former high school alma mater, being named this year “Most Distinguished Alumna” at the renowned Altria Theatre in Virginia.