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I have a BA Communications degree from UTS (majoring in Writing / Social & Political Studies) & an MA in Children's Lit. from Macquarie University. I've written several crime novels for adults (unpublished) as well as a number of novels for children & teenagers.

Publications to date include: Three's a Crowd (written under the pseudonym Anne Holmes, published by Pan Macmillan Aus. & UK - now out of print); Ghost Boy (Scholastic - now out of print); Surfing the Future (Wendy Pye NZ); Wally the Water Dragon (Blake Education); Shalott (Random House) and Return to Shalott - to be published by Random in May.

In December, Shalott won the Society of Women Writers prize for best young adult novel. I have also won prizes for several of my short stories, including the inaugural Queen of Crime competition and the Dymphna Cusack Memorial Award. Many of my short stories have been published in magazines both here and overseas, as well as in anthologies.

I've presented papers on the writing of Shalott, and associated Arthurian topics, at Grail Quest, Macquarie University and in Canberra. I've taught creative writing classes to both adults and children. I am a member of Lateral Learning, and have frequently been asked to speak to students about researching and writing Ghost Boy - a time slip novel which goes back to a smallpox epidemic in 1881 and the Quarantine Station in Sydney. The Quarantine Station runs special 'Ghost Boy' tours for schools studying the book.