Edwina Howard was born in 1969 and spent her early years in the NSW mid north coast town of Taree. She grew up reading any book she could lay hands on and soon found that the stories were not necessarily limited to what was on the page, but could continue quite satisfactorily into real life. Teachers described this as daydreaming. The daydreaming continued through university and serious stuff, like work, until she decided it was time to keep track of some of the stories. She now spends her time between Old Bar, a village on the mid north coast, and Quirindi, a small town on the north western plains, with her husband, her son and daughter, and a motley assortment of animals that have claimed ownership.