About Sally Ann
Author, poet, biographer, novelist, biologist, and Environmental Policy Officer.
I’m Sally Ann Hunter
Sally Ann Hunter is a biologist and environmental policy officer (BSc [Biol], MEnv Sts.). She has published a collection of poetry called The Structure of Light and a biography called You Can’t Keep a Good Man Down: from Parkinson’s to a new life with Deep Brain Stimulation.
A paper she wrote on the biography, was read on ABC Radio’s Ockham’s Razor, as was a paper on living with solar power. She completed a ten-month course called Manuscript Incubator at Writers SA. Also at Writers SA, she did Poetry Studio on Zoom with Jill Jones over several months.
A novel called Transfigured Sea, (Nature Writing) was published in 2022 and another called Golden Cups (Historical Fiction) is in the process of publisher’s revision. A number of her poems have been published in anthologies and online. She lives in the Adelaide Hills where she gains inspiration for much of her Nature Writing.
In the Media
Sally Ann has appeared on Australian National radio and had her work featured in South Australian news papers.
ABC Radio
A reading of Sally Ann’s book You Can’t Keep A Good Man Down – From Parkinson’s To A New Life With Deep Brain Stimulation. was published on the ABC radio program Ockham’s Razor, with Robyn Williams.
InDaily
Poetry by Sally Ann about a surprise blossoming under the shelter of foliage, a pure kind of laughter, and poems that casts light on the still beauty of nature and the bush have been published in Poets’ Corner of online newspaper, InDaily.