Anna Cienska grew up in South Africa. She married and moved to Zimbabwe where she raised a young family in Mhangura (Mangula) during the first years of the war of independence. Anna attended fiction writing courses at Carleton University, joined Ottawa Independent Writers, and is a member of Victoria Creative Writers Group. She was inspired to write Harvest of Fear to impartially depict the events that brought down this once-thriving country. She is an editor of non-fiction manuscripts. Anna lives in Victoria, British Columbia, and has a family home in France.
