Gullaweer

Cheryl Fitzell grew up on a free-range pig farm in Central Western NSW, Australia. She wrote her first book of (terrible) poetry at age seven. For the next 20-odd years she did everything except become a writer because everyone said it wasn’t a proper job. In that time, she herded emus, answered phones, sold vinyl wall-siding door-to-door, worked as a university researcher, TV presenter and voiceover artist, learnt to weld and drive a crane, and did a stint as a bricky’s labourer. In 1999, after completing a university degree, someone kindly offered her a job as an advertising copywriter. She now runs her own copywriting/marketing business, and still needs to pinch herself every now and then. Gullaweer is Cheryl’s first published book.