Daughter of immigrant Jews from Poland who survived World War 2 and migrated to Melbourne. Singer left home at 16 in 1963 and moved into a university women's college. She has lived and worked in many countries including England, the USA and Ethiopia. Singer has been a secondary school teacher, migrant worker, editor and publisher. Singer was married at 22 to the philosopher Peter Singer. On her husband's appointment to a chair at Princeton University, Singer left for New York where she and her husband live on Manhattan's west side. In 2001 she was teaching part-time at Jersey City University.
