Anne Bishop received a master’s degree in art history from the University of Michigan. She lived in Paris and the Southwest of France for twenty years, and taught English as a foreign language. Returning to San Francisco, she taught English at U.C. Berkeley Extension and developed a foreign student internship program. After a move to Marin County, she taught French language, culture and literature at Book Passage. She and her husband divide their time between Sausalito, California and the South of France.