Anne Konrad

About the Author Anne Konrad was born in Alberta, but grew up on Clearbrook Road in a then Mennonite village in Abbotsford, BC. She graduated from MEI (Mennonite Educational Institute), from UBC (University of British Columbia) and studied at the University of Toronto. In her era, girls being expected to become teachers or nurses and to support husbands achieving academic careers, Anne became a high school teacher. She married, moved to New York City (a world of "West Side Story" and racial...See more

About the Author Anne Konrad was born in Alberta, but grew up on Clearbrook Road in a then Mennonite village in Abbotsford, BC. She graduated from MEI (Mennonite Educational Institute), from UBC (University of British Columbia) and studied at the University of Toronto. In her era, girls being expected to become teachers or nurses and to support husbands achieving academic careers, Anne became a high school teacher. She married, moved to New York City (a world of "West Side Story" and racial temperatures). After living in the USA and in Europe, she moved to Toronto. Here expressways were being stopped while Eaton's show window curtains were still closed Sundays. In Toronto, where Anne taught English and ESL many of her students were immigrants living in the inner city, Over the years, Anne translated and edited books and published stories and articles in literary and professional journals and in anthologies. Her novel, The Blue Jar (Queenston House) was published in 1985. A short story collection Family Games (Netherlandic Press) followed in 1992. A family saga And In Their Silent Beauty Speak (Pandora Press), came out in 2004 and Red Quarter Moon: A Search for family in the Shadow of Stalin (University of Toronto Press) in 2012 told the story of her years long travel to distant countries to locate relatives lost in the upheaval following the Bolshevik Revolution. Konrad married her high school sweetheart, has three grown children, four grandchildren and regularly returns to the Fraser Valley to visit members of her extended family and to reconnect with life on a once gravelled road, but now the fast-moving highway called Clearbrook Road. See less