Education
Born in Hobart, Tasmania, she attended Street 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 (1972-1975). 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.
Career
Anne Morgan (born 16 November 1954) is an Australian writer of children's books and plays, and poetry. 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.
Her first children's picture book, The Glow Worm Cave (illustrated by Belinda Kurczok) 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 (2013), is illustrated by Gay McKinnon and published by Intellectual Property Kidz. The Sky Dreamer (2011), also published Intellectual Property Kidz, is illustrated by Swiss artist, Celine Eimann.
A French version of The Sky Dreamer (Le Bateau de Reves) also appeared in 2011, translated by Celine Eimann.
Anne Morgan"s first full-length poetry collection, A Reckless Descent from Eternity, was published by Ginninderra Press, Portuguese Adelaide, in 2009. She currently lives on Bruny Island, Tasmania, and writes full-time.