Glenda has loved reading and being read to from early age.  As a child, her more robust pursuits included billy-cart racing, tree-climbing and attempting to fly. She used to dream that she could fly and on windy days she could be found at the football oval with her arms outstretched, poised to be whisked away, or sometimes balanced precariously on the roof of her Nana's shed. Neither of these techniques worked. Even an impressive bandage around her wrist, a day home from school and a ride in the council grader was poor compensation for the spectacular failure of her launch attempt from the high-up swing at school.

At the age of 15, Glenda left school and it wasn't until nearly forty years later and completely by accident, that she discovered another way of experiencing the freedom that she had imagined flight would give her. It was by writing.

Glenda loves to share the story of how enrolling at TAFE with the expectation of acquiring marketing skills, led her to becoming an author of children's books.  She likens the experience of commencing a new book to that of standing on the edge of her Nana's shed, heart a-flutter, mouth dry, before finally daring to step off the edge, then the gliding, swooping and soaring sensations of creating story.