Karen Fainges

Born in Lismore NSW, a rev head/surfer dairy town, I moved to Nimbin at the tender age of six to learn the ups and downs of living in a hippie based economy, and moved again to Coonabarabran - rural, wear your hat if you are going into town, set your watch back, type of place.

I learnt all about culture shock and I'm sure my desire to write a world of my own came from all that moving around. Here was one world that followed the rules. Except...I never was too good at following rules. And neither are my characters.

Story telling was a part of life, whether it was reading books or sitting around a camp fire, my happiest times were spent lifting on the clouds of words into the worlds above. Fairies, aliens, westerns, historical, it didn't really matter. Anything that showed the world through different eyes.