Anne Cimon was born in Montreal in September 1952. She studied in French schools then in English when she enrolled at Sir George Williams University. A turning point in her commitment to become a writer happened in 1979 when she studied the craft of poetry with Canadian, and international poet, Irving Layton. He encouraged her to continue to write.
           
Anne published her first book, A Skin of Snow, a novellette with poems, in 1981 while living in Toronto with her husband, Gerald Doerksen, whom she had met in Irving Layton's class. She sold her books at the Morningstar Clothing Boutique where she worked  for several years and at the Longhouse Book Shop which specialized in Canadian literature. In the mid-eighties, she began to freelance as a book reviewer for the Cross-Canada Writers' Quarterly and over the years wrote for the Montreal Gazette, Books in Canada and other publications.

Her second book of poetry, No Country for Women, was published by Mosaic Press in 1993. This collection contained poems inspired by the ocean landscape of Cape Ann, Massachussetts, where the author had vacationed nearly every year since a child.  She was influenced by the writers of that area such as Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, T.S. Eliot, and Henry David Thoreau. That year, Anne became seriously ill, continued to write in her journals, but didn't publish for several years.

In 1999, Anne moved to the village of Sutton, in the Eastern Townships of Quebec with her husband, Gerald Doerksen. Anne joined a local writers' group and met Munira Judith Avinger who encouraged her to work on a bilingual poetry collection.  In 2002, she published All We Need/Tout ce qu'il faut with Borealis Press.

That same year, Anne suffered the loss of her husband. Her second bilingual collection An Angel around the Corner/ Un ange autour du coin, published in 2004 with Borealis Press, contain many poems about grief and mourning.

Anne was commissioned to do a biography of the nineteenth-century Canadian writer, Susanna Moodie, for the Quest Library Series of XYZ Publishing. Anne's interest in Canadian history and women's literature combined in the research and writing of  Susanna Moodie: Pioneer Author published in 2006.

Since 2005, Anne lives in Montreal. She works as a freelance writer, editor and translator. Her new projects are a novel set in contemporary Montreal and a book of poetry inspired by the painter Vincent Van Gogh.