About Anna
Anna Couani is a Sydney writer and visual artist who runs The Shop Gallery with her husband Hilik Mirankar. She has published 7 books of prose and poetry, the most recent being local published by Flying Islands Books. She was a secondary school teacher for 35 years, 20 years in Intensive English Centres, working as an Art and ESL teacher. She was a founding member of both the Sydney Branch of the Poets Union and the No Regrets women writers group. Her work is published in many magazines and anthologies and she has co-edited a number of anthologies herself. She was active in small press publishing in the 70’s and 80’s, with magazine Magic Sam with Ken Bolton and with her imprint Sea Cruise Books. She has lived in the Sydney suburb of Glebe since 1971 and wrote an essay about the suburb for The Sydney Review of Books.
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