Anne Morgan (author)


Anne Therese Morgan is an Australian writer of children's books and plays, and poetry.

Biography

Born in Hobart, Tasmania, she attended St Joseph's School, Hobart, and Mount Carmel College, Sandy Bay, before training as an English, Drama and Biology teacher at the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education, Mount Nelson. She began her teaching career at Burnie High School, and then taught in remote locations in the Northern Territory. In 1978 she toured outback Queensland schools as an actor with the Queensland Theatre Company. She returned to Hobart to teach young unemployed people. In the early 1980s she completed a Master of Education degree at the University of Tasmania and worked in the Australian Public Service in Hobart for fourteen years. In 2008 she completed a PhD in Writing at Edith Cowan University in Perth, and was awarded the 2009 Faculty of Education and the Arts Research Medal.
Her first children's picture book, The Glow Worm Cave was published by Aboriginal Studies Press in 1999. Since then she has had seven more stories for children published, including the Captain Clawbeak children's series, published by Random House Australia.
Her latest children's book, The Smallest Carbon Footprint in the Land & Other Ecotales, is illustrated by Gay McKinnon and published by IP Kidz. The Sky Dreamer, also published IP Kidz, is illustrated by Swiss artist, Celine Eimann. A French version of The Sky Dreamer also appeared in 2011, translated by Celine Eimann. This surreal picture book deals with a young boy's journey through grief after the death of his beloved sister.
Anne Morgan's first full-length poetry collection, A Reckless Descent from Eternity, was published by Ginninderra Press, Port Adelaide, in 2009. She currently lives on Bruny Island, Tasmania, and writes full-time.

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