Queensland author, Annette Henderson, has been writing full-time since 2005. Her first book, the acclaimed African memoir, Wild Spirit, was published by Random House Australia in 2009. She has recently completed a second book about the journey she and her husband, Win, made across the Sahara.
Annette Henderson has worked in the United Kingdom, Africa, Indonesia and remote Australia. With Win, she travelled overland from Calcutta to London in 1973 in a Kombivan, in which they later journeyed from London to Equatorial Africa. Her life changed dramatically in 1975 when they both took jobs in a mineral camp in remote mountainous forest in Gabon, West Africa where she helped care for an orphaned and injured baby Lowland Gorilla. On returning to Australia, she embarked on a career as an anthropologist.
In 2009,Annette and Win lived on and cared for seven acres of native bushland outside Brisbane, which they share with koalas, wallabies, powerful owls and over 140 species of native birds. Her articles on Australian birds and reptiles have appeared in Wildlife Australia Magazine and Annette is a zoo parent of the gorillas at Taronga and the adoptive parent of an orphaned orang-utan in Borneo.
Annette was Margaret Throsby's guest on ABC Classic FM on 12 May, 2009 and has been extensively interviewed on ABC Radio and elsewhere following the publication of Wild Spirit. She is an experienced public speaker and radio presenter and much in demand on the speaking circuit. She was born and educated in Brisbane and holds degrees in Anthropology, Management and Creative Writing. Source: Supplied by author.
