LISA KALMA
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Hello friends!

I'm Lisa, and I do the daydreaming, creating, reading and writing around here. I live in Australia's beautiful bush capital - Canberra, with my husband, 11 year old son, and surprisingly kittenish 18 year old cat, Kali. I was born and raised here, and even though I crave the beach I couldn't really imagine living anywhere else. 

I'm a qualified teacher, having taught in ACT public primary schools for over 15 years. I've been writing in one form or another since I was a child and I still have some of the 'books' I wrote in kindergarten. I also still have some of the teenage-angsty diaries and poetry I wrote in the early nineties. It makes me cringe just thinking about some of the first world problems I had as a teenager and how incensed I was about them. At the time I obviously thought they were a big deal. It's all about context, I guess.

​I still write poetry, mostly about everything and anything. I've also written a few unpublished short stories, and was a semi-finalist in an international flash fiction competition in 2018. I got my ability and ambition mixed up by attempting a 100,000 word epic novel not so long ago. Hmmm... only 72,000 words to go on that one! It might happen. Really! I'm also some way into writing a YA novel about zombies... eeek!

My debut children's picture book, My Llama Drama, was released in July 2019. You can find it here.

I have also been dabbling in a bit of journal and notebook design. You can check out what I've been doing here.
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