ANN IRELAND is the author of two novels, A Certain Mr. Takahashi, (which won the Seal First Novel Award and was later made into a movie called "ThePianist") and The Instructor, which was nominated for the Ontario Trillium Award.

She lives in Toronto, which is where she was born in 1953, and where she teaches various forms of Creative Writing in the Department of Continuing Education at Ryerson Polytechnical University. She has also lived in Vancouver, where she received a B.F.A. at the University of British Columbia in 1976, and in New York City and Mexico. She has managed to slip these travel experiences into her fiction.

Ann's work has appeared in magazines, journals, and anthologies across the country and she has appeared extensively on radio and television. She has been active in The Writers' Union of Canada, and on the board of PEN Canada.

Ann Ireland served as Writer In Residence at the North York Public Library in 1995, and at the Windsor Public Library in 1988. These days she continues to teach and write in Toronto, living with the artist Tim Deverell and their son, Tom.