Antonia Hildebrand is a poet, short story writer, publisher and essayist. She was born and educated in Toowoomba Queensland. In 1972 she married Reinhard Hildebrand and moved with him to Hamburg, Germany. She lived and worked in Europe for three years and also travelled in both Europe and Asia before returning to Australia in 1975. She then studied at the Toowoomba Technical College, going to evening classes until she was admitted to the University of Queensland. She graduated in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts and majors in both German and English literature. In 1993 she graduated Master of Letters (German) from the University of New England.
Her first published short story appeared in Downs Images in 1981 and in Woman's Day 'Summer Reading' in 1982 and she has since been widely published in journals, magazine and anthologies in Australia as well as Britain and the USA. She has reviewed books for the Toowoomba Chronicle newspaper and films for the writers' journal Polestar which she edits. In 2002 she began contributing to Radio National's Bush Telegraph program. Many of her short stories have been broadcast by Queensland Storyteller on Radio 4RPH and by Radio 91.3FM Yeppoon.
Hildebrand is the publisher of Tangerine Books.
