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Ann Graham Walker

Ann Graham Walker is a professional writer with nearly 30 years experience. Her journalism career began with the 4th Estate, a legendary (and now defunct) Halifax weekly newspaper.

After moving on to CBC Radio, Ann was a current affairs and local morning show producer, working in the Cape Breton and Halifax CBC stations. CBC listeners will know the diversity this job entailed, producing, researching and writing stories on a huge range of subjects.

Halifax - Smart City coverHer next job turned out to be quite different, but no less fast-paced. Ann became the principal script writer for former Nova Scotia premier, the late Dr. John Savage. During her tenure in the Premier's Office she did everything from writing around three hundred speeches a year to producing a weekly cable tv-show and acting as liason with the media.

In 1997 she ended her temporary soujourn in provincial politics and wrote a book for the Greater Halifax Partnership entitled Halifax - Canada's Smart City. She began freelancing, as a regular contributor to the quarterly magazine, Nova Scotia Open to the World, as well as for other Halifax publications. She then took up what turned out to be a two and a half year post as the Atlantic Region Staff writer for national weekly newspaper, The Medical Post.

In addition to her work as a journalist, Ann has published poetry in the Gaspereau Review, Voices Down East, PRISM International, and in Vancouver Island's Leaf Press. In July 2002, she put her snow shovels away, packed her garden tools and her laptop and moved to the west coast, together with her Irish husband, a border collie and three cats.

A true child of the global village, Ann grew up in Cuba, Mexico, Argentina, Australia and the United States where she attended university and graduate school. She now lives in Nanoose Bay, BC (on BC's Vancouver Island) where she works as a freelance journalist and is a student in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing in Goddard College's distance MFA - and educational oppurtunity Ann sees as an excuse to work single-mindedly on her novel about growing up in Argentina: The Girl in the Garden.