Anderson left Canada in his early twenties and spent fifteen years travelling in Asia, studying in Europe, teaching in Latin America, along the way logging 25,000 miles of coastal and ocean sailing, having twice crossed the Atlantic as a delivery sailor, and has partnered in a sailing charter operation in the Caribbean. He has worked as a deckhand in Monte Carlo, fruit picker in Switzerland and construction worker in Australia. Excerpts from Hunger's Brides have appeared in Queen Street Quarterly and Prairie Fire, in the Banff Writer’s Studio anthology Rip Rap, and in the cultural supplement of the Mexico City daily La Crónica. In 1996, Calgary’s legendary One Yellow Rabbit performance theatre toured a dramatic reading adapted from the manuscript by the author, and performed in the convent where Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the central character of the novel Hunger’s Brides, lived out her life. Hunger's Brides has been a selected as a Kiriyama Pacific-Rim Prize Notable Book, finalist for a Commonwealth Writers prize, and finalist for a W.O. Mitchell Prize. In 2005, Hunger's Brides was named Writers Guild of Alberta novel of the year. Anderson lives for the moment in Canada.