Anna has a doctorate in creative writing, is an award-winning author and has extensive experience in teaching academic writing to undergraduates, postgraduates and early career researchers.
Following a successful career as an award-winning feature writer and investigative journalist, Anna published two novels. The Floating Island (Arrow, 2008) won a Betty Trask best debut award from the Society of Authors. Her second novel, Before I Knew Him (Arrow, 2009) was shortlisted for a Good Housekeeping Good Read award.
Alongside her writing career, Anna was a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund (RLF) at Teesside University (2011–2014) where she taught academic writing skills to hundreds of students. During this time, she developed an essay-writing tool in the form of an app called ALEX.
As published author, journalist, copywriter and communications specialist, Anna’s experience makes her ideal for facilitating bespoke and practical courses and workshops for a range of disciplines. She works both one-to-one and in workshops and particularly enjoys transposing the techniques of creative writing onto academic writing to enable students and academics hone their narrative craft and find their writing voice.