She supplements her teaching income through non-fiction writing – textbook writing and corporate reports – and notes that she has yet to earn a cent from writing fiction. But “like an itch that must be scratched”, she continues to write fiction, and she is one of only two authors to appear in both the inaugural Short.Sharp.Stories collection and this one; her story A Dog Before Nine was featured in Bloody Satisfied in 2013. She lives with her son and other animals in suburbia.