Mia Anderson

Mia Anderson is a writer, a gardener, an Anglican priest, an erstwhile shepherd, long-time actress and a once-familiar voice in CBC radio dramas. Hers is the voice of Atwood’s The Journals of Suzanna Moodie recorded by the CBC. Born and raised in Toronto, where she graduated in English Language and Literature from the University of Toronto, Mia Anderson spent the next 25 years on the stage in the U.K. in London, Edinburgh, and Manchester, and across Canada (including 5 seasons at the Stratford Festival). A national tour of her one-woman show 10 Women, 2 Men and a Moose showcased then-contemporary Canadian writers. She has published four books of poetry: Appetite (Brick, 1988), Chateau Puits ’81 (Oolichan, 1992), Practising Death (St Thomas’ Poetry, 1997), and most recently The Sunrise Liturgy (Wipf & Stock, 2012).