Anna Rogers

Anna Rogers has spent most of her working life as a book editor, since 1984 as a freelancer.
She has an MA in English from Canterbury University, and has also been a bookseller and a sub-editor for the Listener.
She works for most of the major New Zealand publishers, editing both fiction and non-fiction. She is the author of eight non-fiction books, including While You're Away: New Zealand Nurses at War 1899-1948, A Lucky Landing: The Story of the Irish in New Zealand and illustrated histories of the West Coast and Canterbury.
She is currently writing a history of New Zealand's medical services in the First World War.