Carolyn Gossage grew up in Toronto, where she learned to skip (school) and jump (queues) and other useful lifetime skills. As an only child, the allure of books and writing claimed her as an early victim. After studying French and German, she spent a year at the Sorbonne in Paris, before returning to teach English and History at the National Ballet School. In 1990, while continuing to write, she began working as the on-set tutor for various film productions including the "Road to Avonlea" and "Goosebumps" TV series.To coincide with the millenium, Carolyn was the collaborative author of a major art history publication on Ethiopian Icons published by Skira in Milan and in 2001 a revised and expanded edition of Greatcoats and Glamour Boots was published by Dundurn Press. Her on-going interest in Ethiopia led to a book on Ethiopian Crosses published in 2006 and the same year she also co-published Forgotten Graces - The Travel Sketchbooks of a Victorian Gentlewoman in conjunction with The Varley Gallery of Markham, Ontario. In October 2007, her translation from German of the 600 year history of the Frankfurt Book Fair was launched in Frankfurt. Her most recent book The Accidental Captives was published by I B Tauris in the UK in the autumn of  2011  and the North American edition by Dundurn Press was released this Spring