

She’s taken business courses, writing courses, and physiology of aquatic animals courses, all at the university level and all for fun. Swapping Louis L’Amour and Zane Grey books with her father guaranteed she wasn’t going to be the next Jane Austen, much to the dismay of her English teacher mother.Ī degree in Social Anthropology from the University of King’s College and Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, again meant writing was the logical (meaning only) career path for her, although it did confirm her belief that learning is a life-long experience. Paula Altenburg grew up in rural Nova Scotia knowing that at some point in her life she was likely to be a fiction writer.
