Anne Spencer Parry
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Anne Spencer Parry was born in Melbourne in 1931. Her family moved to Sydney when she was 16 where she attended Hornsby Girls School.[2]
She studied as a mature student at the University of NSW and graduated BA (Bachelor of Arts - English). She was a psychotherapist in private practice in Sydney.[3]
In 1976, Parry's first work was published by The Pinchgut Press, a publishing organisation founded by friend and poet Marjorie Pizer and her husband in 1947.[4] The Pinchgut Press went on to publish many of Anne's books. In 1980 Ashton Scholastic re-published her first four books, issuing a number of reprintings over the course of the decade.
Parry was in partnership with Marjorie Pizer in their psychotherapy practice. Marjorie dedicated her 1988 poetry collection 'Equinox' to Parry: "Equinox is in memory of my dear friend and partner, Anne Spencer Parry, who died of cancer ... we worked together as partners for over 20 years as psychotherapists, as writers and as publishers ...”[5]
She is acknowledged as Jewish writer,[6] but was not from a Jewish family; she converted to Judaism later in life.
Parry died in Cremorne, Sydney[7] after a short battle with cancer[8] in 1985, aged 53.[9]
