Stephanie writes true stories from Australia’s past as well as picture books with an environmental theme. She has won numerous awards including the CBCA Children’s Book of the Year Award, CBCA Laurie Copping Award for Distinguished Service to Children’s Literature in the ACT and she is also an Ambassador for the ACT Chief Minister’s Reading Challenge.

Before becoming a full-time author, Stephanie worked as a secondary school teacher, a librarian, a university lecturer and a Hansard Editor at Federal Parliament.

Stephanie lives here in Canberra, in a house full of books. She is the mother of three adult children, including twins, and the grandmother of two grandsons and one grand-daughter, all of whom inspire her writing.