She grew up in various outback towns in New South Wales, with her grandparents' farm a constant, and started writing at an early age. She holds a BA in Theatre and Film Studies and has lived in New Zealand since 1994, apart from a spell in the United Kingdom during which she received an MPhil in Creative Writing from the University of Glamorgan. She has been a member of the Airing Cupboard Women Poets group, Canterbury Poets Collective, and The Australian Haiku Society. Her work has received a number of awards and appeared in numerous publications. The Summer King will be her first published collection.