Shelley Davidow is originally from South Africa but has spent two decades living and working all over the world. She has lived in England, Qatar, the USA and is now based on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. "I wasn’t exactly aspiring to be such a globe-trotter, in fact, I coveted stability, but living in diverse places has given me a far-ranging experience of humanity which is never a bad thing for a writer," she says.'But Australia is my fifth and final continent.'

The author of 45 books, she writes across genres. Her latest work includes the memoirs Shadow Sisters, Whisperings in the Blood , the highly acclaimed parenting book Raising Stress-Proof Kids, as well as the poetic immigrant memoir The Eye of the Moon.

Shelley is a senior lecturer in the School of Education at the University of the Sunshine Coast.She's s a facilitator in Restorative Practice and runs workshops in building social and emotional health, as well as in creative writing.

http://www.shelleydavidow.com/bio.html

http://www.shelleydavidow.com/

Music for Podcast
Groove Grove by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3831-groove-grove
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Original Broadcast: 11/16/2020