Born and raised in France, Antoinette Constable was a career nurse with British and American degrees, and also had her own catering business. She has lived in the United States for many years, where she raised her four children as a single mother. A writer from a young age, her experiences as a child in WWII France were material for her novel and also for her award-winning chapbook of war-related poems, The Lasting War. She received a Human Rights Fellowship Writing Retreat at the Mesa Refuge in Northern California, and is the winner of the PEN First Prize for Poetry and the Ann Stanford Award from the University of Southern California. Her travel essays and poetry have been published in award-winning anthologies by Wanderland Writers: Wandering in Paris (Gold Award, London Book Fair; Silver Award, Paris Book Fair) and Wandering in Cornwall (Bronze, Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award). She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she is at work on a second novel.
