I am fascinated by the moments when a life stops going according to plan—and what happens when it all turns upside down. I write fiction and memoir exploring the imperfect science of beginning again.

I was a city girl who married a cattle grazier and found myself on Queensland’s Granite Belt, helping run a property despite having no qualifications beyond enthusiasm, a pair of R M Williams boots, and an Akubra hat. After a lifetime of cattle, droughts, and the occasional escaped bull, we finally swapped the bush for the sand and surf of the Sunshine Coast. Now I’m an author and a practising Instagram tragic; I write, travel whenever possible, and take far too many photos on my iPhone.

I'm working on After the Sensible Years, a late-life reinvention memoir about the contract women sign without seeing the fine print, the one that promises we'll be sensible, reliable, competent, and definitely not ridiculous. And what happens when I finally take a red pen to the terms and conditions.

I'm a member of the ALLWRiTE Club—a generous community of writers whose work and thinking continually stretches my own.