In 1984, Gerda Saunders emigrated to the United States from South Africa, where she had worked as a research scientist and math and physics teacher. Upon her arrival in this country, she began writing fiction.
She became a US citizen in 1992, and in 1996 she received a PhD in English from the University of Utah. She currently serves as Associate Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Utah. She and her husband Peter make their home in Salt Lake City, where their son Newton and his wife Cheryl also live. Newton is completing his degree in computer science at the University of Utah. Their daughter, Marissa, is studying biochemistry at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.
Gerda is the author of Blessings on the Sheepdog (SMU Press, 2002) and recently completed her first novel, The Last Pietà of MichelAgniolo.
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