Anne SIKKING

ANNE SIKKING is a first nations' novelist whose work has been praised for its deep understanding of the human condition and its gentle humour.

Born in the USA to mixed race teenagers in 1953, she was adopted at two and a half and moved to the UK. An often abusive childhood kick-started her writing at five.

"It is often said that a writer should write what they know of the world, about how it is. Another way is to dream what the world might be and celebrate what we know we are capable of."

A Cheyenne-Cherokee blood line, a US passport, a British education, an Hispanic heart have resulted in a blend of fiction, at once visionary, thrilling and political.