My best-selling children’s book JETTY JUMPING (Little Hare / Hardie Grant Egmont, illustrated by Hannah Soommerville) won the 2022 CBCA Picture Book of the Year – Early Reads winner. It featured in the 2022 Vic Premier’s Reading Challenge and actress Angourie Rice reads the book on StoryBox Library. SUNDAY SKATING is the much-anticipated follow-up, out in June 2023 and IN THE ROCKPOOLS in Dec 2023. (both with Hardie Grant, illustrated by Hannah Sommerville) In 2024 AUDREY SKIPS (Midnight Sun Publishing, illustrated by Lisa Coutts) will also hit the bookshelves. I write books for children, and stories for grown-ups too. I combine my nostalgic celebration of culture and the environment in our everyday lives with the questions and reflections that draw us together. My writing absorbs the themes and issues encouraging collective discussions and conversations. I believe in the power of stories and reading out loud and in secret. Several of my short stories, magazine features and micro fictions have been published and longlisted in literary magazines and Australian awards. I'm the winner of the 2020 Hal Porter Short Story Award, Highly Commended for the 2022 Newcastle Short Story Award and 2nd place in the Mulga Bill Writing Award. As an Australian literature advocate, I’m the President of the Peninsula Writers’ Club and the co-host of the regional Words After Dark author interviews with Antipodes Book Store on Australia's Mornington Peninsula.