Gail Graham

Gail Graham was born in East Orange, New Jersey in 1941. Her first published work was a letter to the editor of the Newark Evening News. Her first literary award was for the best essay from Columbia High School in the National Contest, "What the Bill of Rights Means to Me" in 1956.

Gail has worked as a journalist and editor, and has published six other books in the United States and in Australia, where she lived for 32 years. Her novel Crossfire has been translated into French, German, Norwegian and Finnish and was awarded one of Germany's most prestigious literary prizes, The Buxtehude Bulle. Three of her other books were New York Times Book of the Year recommendations. In Australia, her one-act play "A Four Colour Job" was awarded the Utah Centenary Playwriting Prize in 1976. Her most recent non-fiction book, A Long Season In Hell was launched at Parliament House in Canberra by Australian Senator Brian Harradine.

Gail received her PhD from the University of Melbourne in 1991 and taught in MBA programs at several Australian universities, before returning to the United States in 2002.

She has presented classes on Chinese art and history at the Institute of Retired Professionals (University of Miami) the Arizona Senior Academy, the Tucson Museum of Art and The Learning Curve, Tucson. When she's not teaching, Gail and her dog Bao divide their time between Arizona and Mexico.