Lainie Jones was born in 1943 and grew up in Sydney, Australia. She left school at an early age and worked as a commercial artist for fifteen years before she and her husband exchanged city life for a small farm in the Northern Rivers region of NSW. In 1984, after completing a Diploma of Teaching, she worked as a teacher of adult literacy. Around this period she began writing, later extending her interest through studies at Southern Cross University. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing and worked for several years as a university tutor. She has had essays and short stories published in a numbe...