 Alison Booth began writing fiction as a child, abandoned it in her twenties and returned to writing short – and infrequent - stories in the late 1990s. Some years later she wrote Stillwater Creek, her first novel, which was published by Random House Australia in January 2010. This was followed by The Indigo Sky, published in January 2011. Alison has now completed her third book, A Distant Land, which will be published by Random House Australia in 2012. Born in Melbourne and brought up in Sydney, Alison Booth obtained her PhD from the London School of Economics in 1984. After two decades living and working in the UK, she returned to Australia in 2002 to take up an appointment at the Australian National University. She is married with two daughters. photo by Studio Vogue, Belconnen |