E. A. Gleeson was born at Coleraine and lived the first six months of her life in her grandmother's home at Wootong Vale. The rest of her childhood was spent on a Soldier Settlement farm near Camperdown in Victoria's Western District. Since then, she has travelled widely. She has lived in urban and rural Australian communities, and, in Tonga, as an Australian Volunteer International. In the mid 1990s, Anne began writing poetry and quickly established her reputation with a quick succession of prizes and publications. She features regularly at Victoria's premier poetry venues and, occasionally, in other places, when she travels. Anne currently lives in Ballarat, Victoria, where she works as a writer, educator and funeral director.