Fiona Stocker is an English / Australian author and freelance writer. Her rural memoir Apple Island Wife – Slow Living in Tasmania was published by Unbound in 2018. She is a regular contributor to Forty South Tasmania magazine and her articles have appeared in other national and international publications. In 2015, her book about the history of farming women, A Place in the Stockyard, was published privately by Tasmanian Women in Agriculture. Fiona is currently enrolled in the Master of Arts in Writing and Literature at Deakin University. Raised in the UK, she now lives on five acres in the West Tamar Valley in northern Tasmania, Australia, with her family.