British born Tess Bridgwater grew up in southern England where she started writing as a schoolgirl. Moving to Canada in 1961, and after a series of unfulfilling jobs while raising her three children, she returned to writing in mid life. Her award winning travel features and book reviews have been published extensively in Canadian and US newspapers and magazines, and she has contributed to two Travel Anthologies. She lives in Cambridge, in Southwest Ontario, Canada. When she is not writing she enjoys spending time with her eight grandchildren.