So far in my life I’ve done a quite a few things such as start a festival, be elected for local government, purchase over 8 million dollars worth of computers and plant around 6000 trees.

I was born in Burnie, Tasmania and grew up there before moving away to go to university and study biochemistry. I married Nathan and moved to mainland Australia. Fifteen years, a project management career, a Masters degree in information technology and three states later, grandparents and the wild outdoors of Tasmania attracted us back. We set up home with two young children on a 60ha farm to grow hazelnuts. During this time, I managed the farm, built a processing facility and commercial kitchen and marketed the nuts we produced as Tamar Valley Hazelnuts.

After ten years of happy memories, hard work and a great community we decided to try something new. We’ve been living in Penguin for a couple of years now – catching up with cousins who live nearby and swimming in the ocean we can see from our house. I’m working for the health department capturing requirements for digital solutions.

I’m also an aspiring novelist with ideas for three or four novels, and dreams of a small business that builds community storytelling and supports individuals to write their own memoirs.