Anne Ingram writes primarily for young readers of 8-15.  She is the author of the Lucy Bee trilogy which follows heroine Lucy from the ages of 10 to 15 through the many challenges and adventures she faces while growing up. The titles are: #1 Lucy Bee & the Secret Gene, #2 Bonjour Lucy Bee, #3 Lucy Bee & Soline.  Her firsr novel for young readers, written when she was living in Singapore, was Sea Robbers, about a young New Zealander and his Malaysian friend who are taken captive by modern day pirates off the coast of Borneo.  While living in Asia, she was commissioned to write three collections of Asian legends which were released in Asia, the UK and New Zealand.  Her short stories have been broadcast on National Radio and published in the School Journal. For many years Anne produced and presented a weekly children’s programme for Coast Access Radio. She has worked as a journalist, editor, teacher and bookseller, managing her own specialist children’s bookstore, Moby Dickens’ Books.  Currently, she is on the board of the Kapiti Children’s Writers’ Group Charitable Trust, and for the Trust, she edited  and published Shortz – Stories from Kapiti, a collection of 21 stories set in Kapiti by Kapiti writers (KCWG, 2012) and produced Shortz – Stories from Kapiti : 2 CDs (KCWG,  2013).  In 2015 she edited and published Flying High - Stories & Poems from Kapiti, a collection written and illustrated by the children of Kapiti. She was born in Auckland and spent her childhood in Dunedin, Te Kuiti and Orewa.  She’s lived and worked in Wellington, London, Christchurch, Singapore, Hamilton and France, but has spent the longest time where she lives now, in Waikanae on the Kapiti Coast.  She has a BA in English and Diploma of Teaching (Secondary).

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