last updated June 2009 A bit about me I am seriously famous. I swear. I was in Dolly Magazine once. Plus, there’s the Judy Davis Connection. So anyway… I am an editor, proofreader, desktop publisher, writer and creative-writing teacher. I am a surfer, and a lover of food, wine, visual art, cinema, TV, theatre, dance, music and everything in between. My first novel, 'Nine Parts Water', is published by the University of Queensland Press and will be in bookshops in August 2007. And this here website is mainly to plug my courses, my book and my wonderfully talented friends. I grew up in inner-city Sydney, then spent many years working as a waitress, receptionist and admin assistant before working in book publishing. I moved to Byron Bay in 1999 to focus on writing, surfing and sleeping. Lovely place Byron Bay. Lovely people, great surfing. But far too hot for me. And rapidly becoming too crowded and trafficky for this hermit (I decided to become a retired and cynical grumpy old cat-lady at the age of about 26). I like cold water and cold weather. If I believed in reincarnation I’d say that I was a penguin in a former life. The news of the Antarctic ice sheets melting is a serious blow to my retirement plans to move to a civilised climate. In September 2005 I up and moved to Batemans Bay. In November 2007, I moved to Canberra to stand by my man. (The surf in Canberra is crap — why did no-one warn me?). Now I work for Hansard at Parliament House - editing what the pollies say. At the ABC Fiction Award. L to R: Emma Hardman, Malcolm Knox, Delia Falconer, Jesse Pentecost, Jo McKay, Richard Glover, Sarah Hopkins. Surfing
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