Teena Raffa-Mulligan writes quirky, whimsical books for children and her publications include picture books, junior fiction and MG novels. Her short stories and poetry for children and adults have appeared in magazines and anthologies and she has also worked as a journalist and editor on a diverse range of publications. Teena lives near the beach south of Perth in Western Australia with a sometime surfer and a golden Labrador with anxiety issues and a toast obsession. Her three children grew up long ago and left home and now have teenage and young adult children of their own. When Teena isn't writing stories she is reading them. She also enjoys family time, sunshine, birdsong and sea-gazing.