Anne Harre has studied music, literature, publishing and creative writing, and was awarded an NZSA Hachette mentorship for the manuscript of The Leaning Man. She works now as a school librarian, but has also been a music teacher, bookseller, freelance editor and reviewer, and editor for the New Zealand Poetry Society anthology. She has also worked for the New Zealand Book Council and as a trustee on the Randell Cottage Writers Trust. Anne lives in Wellington and The Leaning Man is her first book.