Annie Kaye
Annie Kaye's first 'real' job was a career in insurance. After fourteen years, the industry had wrung from her everything it could, leaving her desperate for a change that would allow her to flex her creativity. She left her job and took several months off, planning to spend them on the couch in her yoga pants. Not six weeks had elapsed before she'd rediscovered a long-lost love: putting words to paper. The next three years would see her writing more than half a million words of fiction, each piece bearing a common theme – love and relationships between gay men.
A part-time job in local government now gives Annie the freedom to balance family, work, creative endeavours, and community involvement. She shares her home in rural Ontario with her husband and two children, their dogs, and far too much costume jewellery.