Anna Forward graduated from the University of Tasmania with First Class Honours in English and a Bachelor in Education. She subsequently taught English and Drama at Hellyer College before moving back to Hobart to take up a teaching position at Fahan School. 

Anna has taught a variety of senior English subjects over her time at Fahan including Literature and Creative Writing.  Anna has also been a contributor to a number of National Publications including Real Time Arts Magazine, Forty Degrees South, Reading Time and Magpies. She has also written and published a number of short stories.

Anna is greatly inspired by this quotation from Walt Whitman;

“A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.”