AUTHOR

Julia has always been a compulsive writer: diaries, blogs, Facebook status updates, wish lists, shopping lists, lists of the things she hasn’t done yet, lists of the things she’s done and wishes she didn’t - and novels. 

She writes from life because that’s where the richest stories are, and because life needs the magic of fiction to make it worth living, to make us all connect.

Julia’s most recent novels, published by Penguin, are Bye Beautiful - which was a Notable Book for the Children’s Book Council Awards in 2006, and was shortlisted for the Western Australian and Queensland Literary Awards - and The Push, which was also shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards. 

Her most recent stories for younger readers include the Aussie Chomp Famous! and Chess Nuts (Penguin, Feb 2010).

Apart from writing, Julia loves Jack Russells, open-minded people and empty beaches, and her favourite saying is, ‘A closed mouth gathers no feet.’  

She has not learned to follow this advice, but hopes that one day she will.