Robin lives on Tamborine Mountain in South East Queensland with her husband, daughter, granddaughter and mother-in-law. She has four adult children and three grandchildren who are the source of her ideas and inspiration for her children’s stories.
In 2007 Robin retired from her position as Deputy Principal at Tamborine Mountain State School and now divides her time between writing children’s books, looking after her granddaughter and going gold prospecting with her husband.
Robin was born in Victoria and as a young married woman spent several years living in Cologne, Germany where she worked in a German kindergarten and taught English at the Berlitz School.
She has always loved reading and spent many days dreaming and fantasising about characters she invented. Robin began writing her first ‘novel’ at the age of seven. She can still remember proudly writing Chapter One in an exercise book. That’s about as far as it got at the time, but her love of language and literature never waned.
In 2002, Robin decided to do something positive for her writing and undertook the Professional Children’s Writing Course through the College of Journalism with Marg McAlister. She started writing children’s picture book stories and educational texts in earnest and has since completed her first junior fiction novel.
Robin has two books, Surfies and The New Neighbours, published by Cambridge University Press in the Bright Sparks Series. She has eight picture books; Molly’s Stuck Finger, Gaby’s Bear, Grandpa’s Gold, The Pile Up, Sylvia’s Itch, The Man In the Moon, The Dribbler and Yesterday I Played In The Rain, waiting publication with Writers’ Exchange. Molly’s Stuck Finger is soon to be released.
One of her stories, Eddie Excellent Chef won first prize in a writing competition.
