Anne Ipsen

Anne Ipsen is a writer, speaker, and environmentalist. She first started writing by memoirs about her childhood in Denmark during WWII and growing up in the Boston area. Then she went on to write historical novels about Denmark and New England. More recently Anne's interests have turned to climate change and how to adjust and prevent the worst of the looming environmental and social disasters. Before leaving academia to write full-time, Dr. Ipsen was Professor of Public Health at the University...See more

Anne Ipsen is a writer, speaker, and environmentalist. She first started writing by memoirs about her childhood in Denmark during WWII and growing up in the Boston area. Then she went on to write historical novels about Denmark and New England. More recently Anne's interests have turned to climate change and how to adjust and prevent the worst of the looming environmental and social disasters. Before leaving academia to write full-time, Dr. Ipsen was Professor of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. She and her husband now live in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They have three grown children and five grandchildren. See less