<p>Dr Kathleen Engebretson is a teacher and academic. She wrote her first novel, Red Dirt Odyssey, while living in a caravan in the Kimberley town of Kununurra. The Blooming of Alison Brennan draws on some of her experiences as a secondary school teacher. Details of her fiction and academic publishing can be found at http://www.kathengebretson.com/</p>
