Trudi Port (then Miller) grew up in Hong Kong from the age of 4 travelling extensively to most corners of the planet, firstly as a child and then later in life working for RH Macy and the May Company USA as ‘Advisory Buyer’, along with the ‘United Nations Industrial Development Organization’(UNIDO) as ‘Creative Designer’ and ‘Market Advisor’ to assist in international exports. (India).

Got to know a few film stars by doing lots of work as extras in movies…Roger Moor, Michael Cain…

She married her husband Len Port, then a radio news journalist in Hong Kong, in a Tibetan Buddhist ceremony in Sherpa Tensing’s Prayer room in the Himalayas.

After further extensive travelling they settled in South Africa where she was employed to restructure and establish the Animal Anti Cruelty League, then a small array of converted rooms and make shift surgery with an acre of land. It is now operational throughout many parts of Africa, changing the lives of millions of animals. Her husband was later transferred to Cape Town where she had her daughter Coreena, followed by her son Rory.

Today living in Cornwall, having acquired her Masters Degree in Fine art and after many years working as Moderator and HO A’levels Art and Design, she has refocused her energy into writing, drawing on the many tails of her experiences and her recently discovered love of story telling to her grand children.