Anna Dunwell is the author of Paradise Lies: A Modern Slave Narrative.
AUTHOR BIO
Anna Dunwell is a full-time writer in North Carolina. She is seeking representation for her personal memoir Paradise Lies: A Modern Slave Narrative.
Born and raised in Bedford Stuyvesant Brooklyn NY, an integration experiment at a Quaker Prep School. She began writing occasionally after graduation from Hunter College gaining an undergraduate degree in English and American Literature with a minor in Baroque and Rennaissance Art. Afterward, she was certified as a MA teacher, gained an MFA in Textiles traveled, and studied in Peru, Ecuador, and Guatemala, then produced 1/4 of a ton of textiles which she distributed throughout the northeast, also writing articles for Fiberarts Magazine, having a few art shows and editing a history of the New England textile industry.
Anna is a nationally acclaimed Yogic Healer and Health Practioner, and a Kripalu certified yoga instructor. In Newton Center Massachusetts she founded a multicultural resource publishing company providing resources to schools and libraries and producing the first Multicultural Symposium in Massachusetts at Emmanuel College for teachers and others interested in expanding the curriculum.
She taught yoga at Boston Medical Center and in her yoga studio Soul Sanctuary which she built on top of her home where she provided yoga classes and individual counseling for chronic ailments like back pain, depression, high blood pressure, diabetes, anxiety, trauma, and PTSD. She held Annual Yoga and Meditation Retreats. as well as other events including BodyLove®Yoga Women’s Retreats sharing recalibrating from traumatizing experiences; learning to bring their own kitchen practices more in alignment with elemental energies; breathing into a new relationship with the body, easing struggles with eating and body image to connect with the fueling center of the whole woman. She is a talented public speaker and corporate/ educational presenter for groups from 20 to 1,200 people.
She has worked with the American Friends Service Committee, and the Urban League, and received numerous grants for art, writing, and yoga teaching while working with the Boston Black Women’s Health Initiative developing 64 Wellness Series programs for Black Women at 4 Boston MA Health Health Centers.; working with cancer patients at Dana Farber Cancer Institute; working with international male and female torture survivors at Boston Center for Refugee Health & Human Rights at Boston Medical Center, and working with chronic back pain suffers and teaching and supervising yoga teachers at Boston Medical Center and taught 4th stage yoga survivors at Dana Farber Cancer Institute. She’s also taught yoga to abused women and children at Second Step, and to young people who have experienced multiple unusual deaths before adulthood in Dorchester. Her yoga work has been noted in various publications including several articles in The Boston Globe, and in Kripalu Centers Yoga and Health’s magazine about her work with cancer patients, as well as speaking to adoptive parents about adopting from different cultures.