Once described as “Canada’s answer to Irma Bombeck,” Anne Hines began her
writing career as the humour/lifestyle columnist for Canadian Living magazine
before spending six years as a contributing editor to Chatelaine where her
humourous articles on everyday life appeared regularly. She has published two
novels; Fishing Up The Moon (Pedlar Press, 1998) and The Spiral Garden (McArthur &
Co, 2005), and a collection of nonfiction humour, A Year In HineSight
(McArthur & Co, 2002). Recently Hines completed her third novel, “Come Away,”
based on the Biblical “Song of Solomon.” She is also enrolled part-time in a
Masters of Theology degree program at University of Toronto; her goal being
“to graduate while there is still religion.” Anne lives in Toronto with her
family.

You can contact Anne Hines through email at: Annemhines@aol.com

Praise for Anne Hines,
"The mind behind The Spiral Garden has a fine intelligence, a delightful sense of humour, very liberal views, an impressive knowledge of religions, and is unabashedly Canadian." - Globe and Mail

"[The Spiral Garden is] An intoxicating mix ... Hines distills her impressive academic, spiritual and literary knowledge into a provocative cocktail ... zips from laugh-out-loud humour to profundity and back again." - Quill and Quire

"Canada's answer to Irma Bombeck" offers up wit and wisdom on everyday life. From four years of columns in Canadian Living and Chatelaine magazines."