I was born in Newcastle, Australia and proceeded to move every few years until most of my friends thought I was on a Witness Protection program. My itinerancy included three years abroad, teaching English in Egypt and Poland. These days, besides creating works of fiction, I am a business writer, creating all manner of documents from brochures and websites to advocacy and educational materials.
I have been writing almost since I could hold a crayon, but spent too many years working for financial institutions as a bank teller. I have also been a playwright, songwriter, actress, editor, public servant, kitchen hand and – once only – a very bad telemarketer.
My first novel was the crime/thriller, Fly By Night (2004), which was nominated for a Ned Kelly Award. My 2005 novel, Witch Honour, published in the US by Five Star Science Fiction, had been short-listed for the George Turner Prize for Science Fiction and Fantasy in 1998. Its sequel, Witch Faith, which was short listed for the same award the following year, was published in 2007. The Opposite of Life was released in early 2008.
In September 2003, my one-act play, Stalemate, was performed by Harbour Theatre and went on to win ‘Best Original Play’ at the Bunbury One-Act Drama Festival. I turned the play into a short story for inclusion in the mini-anthology, Showtime, part of Twelfth Planet Press’s 12 Planets series. Other short stories and essays have been published in a variety of books and websites.
I am now settled in the marvellous town of Melbourne with my husband , Tim Richards (a travel writer and author of Mind the Gap which has a little crossover with The Opposite of Life, and We Have Here the Homicide: A Travel Writer’s Strange Affair With Poland
