Kate Andersen and Anelie Walsh created this site to showcase the writing talents of young people with CFS, FM, and MCS from around the world. Many YPWCs have their own web pages, but there is no central 'web portal' or index connecting them all. We feel their writing deserves a wider audience and hope this site will go some way toward achieving that goal.

We host all articles here at the site to avoid link rot and speed download times. If you spot a problem with the site, please e-mail Anelie at anelie@mac.com.

Kate Andersen, M.Ed. is a Canadian educator who has had ME/CFS for many years. She maintains the National ME/FM Action Network Youth and Parents site. In 1983, a young mother of three and a college ESL instructor, Kate became ill with ME shortly following her infant son's illness with Coxsackie B1 meningitis. While ill, Kate returned to university to change fields in order to qualify herself to work on children's issues. She worked on numerous research projects in child development and received several major academic awards while pursuing graduate studies, including the prestigious Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship of Canada. When one of her daughters fell ill with ME/CFS, Kate returned to advocacy in ME/FM and abandoned her Ph.D. just as she was writing up her dissertation. Kate is a contributing writer to a chapter on chronic fatigue syndrome in children and the editor of the National ME/FM Action Network's Sourcebook for Teachers on ME/CFS and FM in children in youth.

Anelie Walsh is a 23 year old who has had CFS for 11 years. Her web experience began with her own site (created in 1996), and she currently maintains it along with those belonging to the Alison Hunter Memorial Foundation and R.J. Walsh & Son. Anelie has just completed an English Literature bridging course, and has applied for a place in an Arts degree at the University of Sydney in 2002. Currently experiencing a remission of symptoms, Anelie divides her time between the internet, study, sewing, cross-stitching and dancing.