Gullaweer

About the Author

Cheryl Fitzell grew up on a free-range pig farm in Central Western NSW, Australia. She wrote her first book of (terrible) poetry at age seven. For the next 20-odd years she did everything except become a writer because everyone said it wasn't a proper job. In that time, she herded emus, answered phones, sold vinyl wall-siding door-to-door, worked as a university researcher, TV presenter and voiceover artist, learnt to weld and drive a crane, and did a stint as a bricky's labourer. In 1999, after completing a BA in Communications at the University of Technology, Sydney, someone kindly offered her a job as an advertising copywriter. After she'd gotten over the shock, she never looked back. She now runs her own successful copywriting/marketing business, and still needs to pinch herself every now and again. Cheryl has two daughters whom she thinks are the bee's knees, and a Tenterfield Terrier called Sausage who likes to tap dance and eat peanut butter, preferably at the same time. Gullaweer is Cheryl's first published book, although she's had a number of poems and award-winning short stories published, some of which have won actual awards a fact which surprises no one more than Cheryl (except maybe Sausage).