Jan Ramage is a Perth-based primary school teacher and has been involved with running Professional Development sessions on literacy and writing, speaking engagements, festivals and workshops with various schools around Perth since her first book, Eyes in the Night, illustrated by Laura Peterson, was published and won the Crichton award for illustration in 2006. Her second children’s book, Tuart Dwellers, was a CBCA Notable Book, shortlisted for the Eve Pownall Award and won the Wilderness Society Environmental Award in 2009; her third, Stranded, which was illustrated by Mark Wilson, was shortlisted for the Wilderness Society Environmental Award in 2011; and her fourth book, Deepsea Whale Rescue, also illustrated by Mark Wilson, won the Whitley Zoological Award in 2013. Jan has also contributed articles and poems to Landscope, the WA’s Conservation, Parks and Wildlife magazine.