Anne Barnes was born and raised in Conception Bay South in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. She went to school at age four and stayed there 'til the age of twenty-eight, in order to study political science at the nearly post-graduate level. Anne’s thesis will never be completed as she now prefers to write news stories about things that really happen as opposed to academic papers about things that could (not really) theoretically happen. Andrea works at Memorial University and does her best ranting when forced to listen to the radio in a moving vehicle.