A very long time ago, I was a kid who loved to read. And write! My sis and I spent our school holidays and weekends and spare time writing stories and sharing them with each other (which might explain why I don’t know how to ride a bike...).

 

Then I got bigger (in age, not so much in height) and scored my first writing job in magazines. Over the years, I wrote articles and edited for DOLLY, Smash Hits, Girlfriend, Women’s Fitness, Cosmopolitan and wrote some travel content for Jetstar, Kia Ora and Escape. 

 

But my one true love is books. And in 2020, THE DREAM came to fruition when I won the HarperCollins Matilda Prize and my debut Young Adult Fiction novel, Half My Luck, was released into the world. 

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I switched it up and wrote a Middle-Grade Fiction novel next. The Sideways Orbit of Evie Hart is on shelves now and has been shortlisted for the 2024 CBCA Book of the Year Award – Younger Readers. So exciting!