I spent my childhood on Sydney’s northern beaches, in tumbledown houses filled with siblings, books, pets, and surfboards.
At age 18, I left the beaches for the inner-city, scraping my way through an arts degree (English and Theatre Studies), while immersed in Sydney’s mid ’80s music/pub/arts scene.
Post-uni, I took off to London for two years where I worked as a copyright assistant with the BBC before returning to Oz, to see if teaching English and Drama in high schools was my calling (it wasn’t).
I then landed my dream job as a director’s/producers’ assistant at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, (ABC) in News & Current Affairs, Children’s TV, and the Documentaries & Features departments. I thrived on the work, the creativity, the people, and was fiercely proud of the public service broadcaster’s role in shaping, reflecting, and preserving Australian culture and identity. I couldn’t imagine being anywhere else.
Yet life had other plans—in 2006, with three young boys in tow, my husband and I moved to Washington, DC, where we stayed for over 18 years. There, I worked as an executive assistant at the World Bank, taught astronomy in a travelling planetarium, and realised now was the time to pursue my life-long love of writing. In May 2025 I graduated from Johns Hopkins University with an MA in Writing.
Life has taken many unexpected turns, and those adventures are ongoing—I currently live on the Caribbean island of Barbados, where I’m working on my first novel.
“Sometimes I feel as though, without literature, I would have no memory.”
~ Tegan Bennett Daylight (“The Details”)
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