Sheryl Gwyther

When she was a little girl, Australian children's author, Sheryl Gwyther found a piece of 95 million-year-old fossil near her outback home.

It fired her imagination, and years later, provided the setting for her children’s adventure novel, Secrets of Eromanga. Research for this story involved the amazing experience of volunteering on an Australian dinosaur fossil dig.

Since then, Sheryl's published work includes novels, school plays, chapter books and magazine articles for 7-15 year olds.

Her chapter books, Princess Clown and Charlie and the Red Hot Chilli Pepper are popular transition books for young readers. Short story, Scaredy Crow appears in the New Zealand Junior Journal and Corn Dolly Dead is one of the horror stories in the Short and Scary anthology.

Sheryl’s writing awards include two Australian Society of Author Mentorships and a May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust Fellowship.

Before writing took over her life, Sheryl taught early primary education and also adult literacy - so literacy and inspiring the love of reading are her passions, as well as telling a good story.

Blogging about the writing life.

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Twitter: @sheryl_gwyther