Anna Balmer Myers was an American author of novels and poetry featuring the local color of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
[1] In addition to her writing career Myers spent more than 35 years teaching at a Philadelphia school for physically disabled students.
Her first three novels were Patchwork: a Story of the Plain People (1920), Amanda: a Daughter of the Mennonites (1921), and The Madonna of the Curb (1922).
This final novel incorporated Balmer family history into the story of Henry William Stiegel and the founding of his glassworks in Manheim.
In 1934, she was a member of the General Committee that helped erect a memorial to Stiegel in Manheim, Pennsylvania.