About the Author

Anna has written and published one memoir and is half way through the second. The first was called A Hippopotamus at the Table and is set in 1970s South Africa. Her second memoir is called Beyond the Bounds and is set in London and Indonesia (already Chapter One got a Highly Commended prize in the Winchester Writing Festival 2017). She has extensive teaching experience in a variety of subjects including Ancient Egyptian history and Information Technology. More recently she has been teaching Memoir Writing to small groups. Their stories continually amaze her and she hopes to hear many more. With this book, she looks forward to setting lots of people on the path of writing their story. Anna is also a prize winning and published performance poet, member of Highgate Poets with two published collections - Heartbroke and Dolly Mix.