Once described as “Canada’s answer to Erma Bombeck,” Anne Hines began her writing career as the humour/lifestyle columnist for Canadian Living magazine and is now a contributing editor at Chatelaine where her humourous articles on everyday life appear regularly. She has published two novels; Fishing Up The Moon (Pedlar Press, 1998) and The Spiral Garden (McArthur & Co, 2005), and a collection of nonfiction humour, A Year In HineSight (McArthur & Co, 2002). Anne is currently working on her third novel, based on the Biblical “Song of Solomon.” She is also enrolled part-time in a Masters of Theology degree program at University of Toronto; her goal being “to graduate while there is still religion.” Anne lives in Toronto with her family.