Jane Carroll writes . . .
I grew up on a farm in southern New South Wales with my parents, two sisters and countless animals. I attended a one-teacher primary school which sat, surrounded by pepper trees and gum trees, in a flat paddock, and went to town once a week for music lessons. This early education, Warrembool (our farm) and my family were my life until I went to boarding school, and have greatly influenced the flavour of my novels for children.
After university I worked as an advertising copywriter in Sydney and Melbourne, I travelled and worked in Europe, and helped to run the family farm before marrying Vic and moving back to Sydney. There I completed my Diploma of Education and became a primary school teacher while Vic, a farmer and Agriculture Science graduate, studied medicine. We had three children whom we took with us to London in 1985–6. I began writing for children while in London and published my first book, Normie, back in Australia in 1989. We lived in South Africa in 1994.
Vic and I now live in Cooma at the foot of the Snowy Mountains with Grace the dog, and the kids when they have time to come home. They love to ski, and we all go to our beach house on the South Coast whenever we can. I write and travel extensively to conduct writing workshops.
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