Anthea Rowan is an author and journalist. She writes for newspapers and magazines across the world. She has written for the UK nationals, the Washington Post, The Irish Times and the South China Morning Post. She lives in Africa.

Anthea has written extensively about mental illness, brain health and dementia.

A number of features on mental illness have won her awards at the charity, Mind.

For a year, she wrote a monthly column at the Irish Times about her mother’s experience of Alzheimer’s Disease for which she was nominated for an Irish Journalism Award at the end of 2023. She writes another, Decoding Dementia, at the South China Morning Post where she contributes regularly to the health pages. She explores All Things Dementia at Psychology Today. She has written personal essays for Vogue and features at The Times, Sunday Times, the Guardian and the Washington Post.

She has also co-produced three short documentary films, working as a script-writer as well as adding her voice as narrator. View the films here.

Her memoir, A Silent Tsunami, was published by Bedford Square Publishers on 12 Sepember, 2024.

Anthea is represented by Dotti Irving at Greyhound Literary.

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