Hi there! Like Kinta the kookaburra I have been on an incredible journey. My home is in Perth, Western Australia but I moved many times as a child, including four years spent in the amazing country of Papua New Guinea.

I share my home with my husband Barry. Together with our children Ben, Brodie and Rob we have had some wonderful adventures since leaving our original home of Adelaide, living in Australia’s tropical north, in Darwin, and spending two years in Seattle, Washington.

I love creating, and my childhood interest in drawing and writing has become a grown-up passion for graphic design and illustration, personalised card-making, and a long-time desire to write and illustrate a children's storybook.

The writing of Laugh again, Kinta! arose from the challenge of finding confidence in myself despite the fears and blockages which I scattered along my path. Children can, like us grown-ups, experience much in the way of upheaval and insecurity. It is my hope Kinta’s story is an encouragement to trust our own inner guidance, so that home and laughter, can be found wherever we are.