Carol Anne Shaw is an art teacher at a private boarding school where she enjoys being able to assist young artists on their creative journeys. She has found that her students' conversations have provided inspiration for her characters in both her first novel, Hannah & the Spindle Whorl, and its sequel, Hannah & the Salish Sea. Carol Anne shares her home in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island with her artist/sculptor husband and her beagle, Eddie. She has two grown sons.