Tangea Tansley was born in Zimbabwe and moved to Australia when she was fifteen, and since then has lived all around the world.
Tansley studied at the University of Western Australia holds a PhD in comparative literature from Murdoch University. In addition to works individually indexed on AustLit, she is the author of For Women Who Grieve : Twelve Steps to Life After the Death of Your Partner (Lothian, 1995); Heytesbury Stud: An Affair of the Heart (Gary Allen, 2003), on building a horse stud from scratch; and Our Grand Design: The Highs and Lows of Building in a Boom (self-published, 2012).
Tansley lives in Western Australia.