Liz Byrski

Liz Byrski is an Australian literature and fiction author and media personality with more than five decades of experience in the Australian and British media. She has authored more than ten novels and over a dozen nonfiction works and her work has been featured in international and national magazines and newspapers. During the 1990s, she was executive producer and broadcaster in Perth, where she worked with ABC Radio before she was hired as an advisor to one of the ministers in the State government of Western Australia. Liz went to the Notre Dame Convent in Surrey from where she graduated in 1960 before she proceeded to Crawley College and the Wall Hall College of Education from where she would get her doctorate on feminist popular fiction. Byrski got her first job working as a secretary for a small firm of exterminators in Sussex at the very young age of 16. She would then move on work on the Horley Advertiser, an affiliate of Surrey Mirror Newspapers as a journalist before she got a job working at the Curtin University’s Faculty of Humanities as an Associate Professor. Liz decided to take freelance writing when she had a lot of time on her hands when she started a family.