Dianne Touchell

Dianne Touchell was born in Fremantle, Western Australia, the same year the country switched to decimal currency. Her debut novel Creepy & Maud (Fremantle Press, 2012) was shortlisted for the Children's Book Council of Australia's Book of the Year Award in 2013 in the Older Readers category. She has worked as a fry cook, a nightclub singer, a housekeeper, a bookseller and manager of a construction company. Sometimes she has time to write books for young adults, who she thinks are far more interesting than grown-ups. She lives with animals and dislikes writing about herself in the third person. twitter.com/DianneTouchell www.facebook.com/DianneTouchellAuthor www.diannetouchell.com.au