Anne Hamilton

Anne Hamilton is an author, editor and creative writing tutor who lives between Edinburgh, Suffolk and Co. Mayo, with her teenage son. Her first book, a travel memoir titled A Blonde Bengali Wife (2010) was based on her experiences in Bangladesh, which inspired and still supports the charity, Bhola’s Children. Her debut novel The Almost Truth (Legend Press 2024)) was the winner of the Irish Novel Fair, arising from a short story in the Edinburgh Charity anthology, The People’s City (Birlinn 2022) Anne’s second novel Letters from Elena will be published in July (Legend Press 2025).

Anne has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow, and currently works with The Open University, The University of Cambridge and Edinburgh Council Adult Education. She is also one-fifth of the collaborative author group, Gill Merton, that received National Lottery Funding to write and edit the novel Entitled (KDP 2022). Her work has been listed in several competitions, including the Lucy Cavendish Prize, the Yeovil Prize and the Blue Pencil First Novel Award.