She was first married on October 14, 1926 in Røros Church to the pastor Aksel Sæsbøe (1893–1972) and she was called Aasta Vaarsnø Falkberget at the time of the marriage.
[5] Falkberget wrote small contributions for newspapers and magazines early in her career.
The first of them, Far og mor i unge år (Father and Mother in Their Young Years), was published in 1971.
It describes Johan Falkberget's upbringing, his life as a writer in Kristiania (now Oslo), and how he met Anna Marie Skjølsvold.
In that book, she describes life on the family farm Ratvolden in Rugldalen near Røros.