The Author

Anna M. Curren

A native of St. John's, Newfoundland, Anna grew up in an Anglo-Irish, post Victorian British culture, a fact which is deeply reflected in her dramatic and exciting, Love, above the reach of time.

Initially educated as a nurse, Anna received an RN from Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital, a BN from Nova Scotia's Dalhousie University and an MA from Cal State University, Long Beach.

Anna started her writing career to fill a textbook void she identified while an Associate Professor of Nursing at Long Beach City College. Her first text, Math for Meds, now in its 10th edition, became an immediate leader in its subject throughout the USA and Canada. Her newest text, Dimensional Analysis for Meds, is in its 4th edition. Anna's texts have sold in excess of one million copies continent-wide.

Anna currently lives in San Diego, California, where she is very active in the GLBT community. In addition, Anna has served since 2001 on the National Board of SLDN, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, a Washington, DC based non-profit organization that provides free legal services for GLB military personnel being kicked out under the 1993 policy of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." SLDN has promoted sponsorship of the Congressional "Military Readiness Enhancement Act" which will overturn this costly and harmful policy. Anna is an active member of Soroptimists International of San Diego, the San Diego Women's Club, and the 905-year-old chivalric Order of St. John of Jerusalem, in which she has been promoted to the rank of Commander. She is a lover of opera and classical music, and has traveled and hiked extensively in many remote and civilized parts of the world.