I’m an Australian living in Switzerland with my partner and young daughter. I started out working as a music teacher and performer before working in the education sector as a careers counsellor, researcher and lecturer, in Australia, the UK and Switzerland. I currently have my own music-teaching studio where I teach singing and piano, but spend most of my time writing, writing, writing.

A few years ago I enrolled in a Master of Communication degree at Deakin University, Australia, deciding to focus on creative writing (both fiction and nonfiction). After years of writing and researching as part of my day job but also trying to write fiction at home without discipline and for the sheer hell of it, it was enlightening and wonderful to suddenly have a purpose, and to also realise that I actually wasn't too bad it.

And so now I've taken a leap of faith and enrolled in a Phd at Deakin University; the opportunity to combine this with some more detailed theoretical thinking was so tempting I couldn't resist.

My plan is to write an historical novel set in Far North Queensland in the 1800s as well as complete an exegesis. Call me crazy but I'm attempting to do the whole thing as an off-campus (whole other side of the world) student living in Switzerland. Wish me luck!