Deborah Marree Wise

Deborah Marree Wise was country born in South Australia. Both her parents were from good honest farming stock. She was raised on a diet of Enid Blyton, Walt Disney and Sunday School.

Her father's work was Itinerant, so she became a loner and lived in an imaginary world of fairies and angels, creating new worlds with her pen. She struggled against leaving childhood, and as her family never lived in one place more than a few years, had few friends, except those who existed in her imagination. Moving back to the country for a year inspired some of her best poetry. This came to an end when she was catapulted into the adult world to search for work in the city.

Deborah Marree became enveloped by the Nursing world in Victoria for two years - then shrugged free and spread her wings to flutter to New South Wales. She tried Secretarial work until she married.

Emotionally immature, she was very surprised to soon find herself with four young children. Rather than abandoning her inner child, motherhood allowed her to dive even deeper into the world of words, but instead of poetry she now wrote songs.

Moving to Western Australia, far from family support, with four young children and working part-time in a world of men for her builder husband, the inevitable stress jolted her from her dream world, and she finally grew up - and produced two more children!

Maturity made her a great mother to her six children, but also gave her the tenacity and boldness to do what she'd always dreamed of doing. She sang her songs, and began to write novels.