Gaellen Quinn

Posted by DSArts on Dec 19, 2012

Gaellen Quinn

Gaellen Quinn from the USA, works as a consultant to international social, economic and community development projects. Her passion for social justice is also reflected in her writing where her careful research and compassionate style reveals her strong desire to promote respect and understanding for indigenous peoples and cultures, many of whom have suffered atrocities and exploitation. One recurring theme can be discerned. What aids cultures and individuals to effloresce and grow, and what makes them decline? As with all fiction the story must come first but as a writer she takes seriously her sense of responsibility to promote a stronger realization of our oneness and shared destiny.

Born into a family of aviators, she spent her early years travelling the world and being introduced to many different cultures, old and new.

The Last Aloha

When her daughters were high school age, they left Southern California to work for three years as unpaid volunteers in a Brazilian orphanage. This fish-out-of-water experience provided the setting and characters for her first novel, The Interior, a story of a young woman who joins a survey team deep in the jungle and must confront all her assumptions about what life means.

Her second novel, The Last Aloha, is set in 19th century Hawaii has won a number of awards. It creates a moving, vivid picture of a vanished time — the final days of the Hawaiian monarchy when descendants of American missionaries plotted to topple the throne. The Black River of Eve, her third novel, is a story that moves from the stratosphere of corporate Manhattan to the depths of the Amazon to shed light on what happens when the relationships of women and men are out of balance.