Aruda Hanna Wilson comes from a culture strong in the oral tradition of story telling, and brings that experience to her writing and tells ripping good stories.
Mrs. Hanna-Wilson was born aboard a U.S. Coast Guard cutter in international waters to Bahamian parents. She was raised on a small island in the Bahamas and married an American sailor. Forty years and three children later, she has decided there is no such thing as normal. Because of her life experiences, she brings a unique view of the worlds she creates into her stories.
"Normal," she states, "Is a word used to describe a non-existent status."
She is an award-winning short story writer who graduated from the Writer's Digest Short School of Short Story and Novel Writing.
After her husband retired from the Navy, they moved to Pensacola, where they have lived for the last twenty years. During that time, she has worked part time for a major department store, a grocery store, and as a paper carrier before she finally settled into writing full time and being surrogate "Mum" for young adults from Florida to Texas.