Ann Alma spent her first 23 years in Holland where she worked as a teacher before emigrating to Canada in 1970. She has more than two decades experience teaching in the Canadian school system and as an instructor of English as a Second Language, both abroad and in Canada.

She is the author of Under Emily’s Sky (Beach Holme, 1997) and Something to Tell (Riverwood, 1998) and has published numerous travel articles in magazines in Canada, the United States and Japan. Alma is a co-founder of Kalamalka Press and has taught creative writing at Selkirk College.

She lives on a hobby farm in the West Kootenay mountains near Nelson, British Columbia.