Anne-Marie Smith

Anne-Marie Smith first obtained a Licence ès Lettres at Bordeaux University in 1968. After teaching in Zambia, she gained a Diploma in TESL and a Doctorate in Linguistics with the University of Papua New Guinea, where she lived and worked. In Western Australia, she taught English in a multicultural context. She worked with migrants and with Indigenous communities near the Western Desert and in Roebourne and the West Pilbara. After working in Perth for Amnesty International WA, she moved to...See more

Anne-Marie Smith first obtained a Licence ès Lettres at Bordeaux University in 1968. After teaching in Zambia, she gained a Diploma in TESL and a Doctorate in Linguistics with the University of Papua New Guinea, where she lived and worked. In Western Australia, she taught English in a multicultural context. She worked with migrants and with Indigenous communities near the Western Desert and in Roebourne and the West Pilbara. After working in Perth for Amnesty International WA, she moved to Adelaide. With the Multicultural Writers Association of Australia, she edited an anthology which was shortlisted by the Human Rights Commission for the Literature Non-Fiction Award in 2009. Volunteering with the Writers Centre library, she became active with PEN. She enjoys learning languages and now writes from home for herself and her grandchildren. See less