Ann Charney is an award winning Canadian novelist, short story writer and journalist. Her work has been published in Canada, the US, France, Germany and Italy. Her most widely published novel is Dobryd, the story of a child discovering freedom amid the chaos of war’s aftermath. She is also the author of Rousseau's Garden, a novel of love and friendship set in the great gardens of France,and Distantly Related to Freud, the coming of age story of a young girl, who dreams of becoming a writer and a femme fatale. Her most recent novel, Life Class, is a story of displacement and ambition played out in the art circles of Venice, New York and Montreal. Ann Charney has been a columnist for Maclean's Magazine, a frequent contributor to Saturday Night, Ms. magazine, and other leading US and Canadian publications. She has won Canadian National Magazine Awards both for her fiction and non-fiction, and was made an officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters. A selection of her non-fiction was collected in a book entitled Defiancé In Their Eyes: True Stories From The Margins. She was married to artist Melvin Charney who died in September 2012.