Anne Infante
Anne Infante is an Australian author, singer and songwriter. Based in Brisbane, she was born in Sydney and raised in Papua New Guinea. She produced her first full-length novel when she was twelve. As an author, Anne has had five popular crime novels published by Collins Crime Club. Ulverscroft released three of these in large print and two were serialised in Australian Woman's Day in 1991 and 1993. Saga Book Publishers released her first mainstream novel, Escape from the Past, in July 1997 and an excerpt appeared in New Idea Magazine. She has had short stories published in CrimeWriters Queensland anthologies as well as Australian Women's Weekly and Australian Woman's Day. The Queensland Writers Centre published her article Crime Isn't Easy Anymore in their December 1996 newsletter Writing Queensland. Anne has presented numerous talks and workshops on the elements of crime writing and fiction writing generally to writing groups, libraries and book clubs, including the Queensland Writers Centre.