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Dr Liana Joy Christensen has enjoyed a lifelong passion for wildlife and nature. For five years she was editor of the wildlife and natural resources magazine Landscope. She has worked extensively with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), earning from them a citation for excellence in science journalism. Her nature essays have regularly appeared in anthologies and magazines such as Australasian GEO, and been excerpted in translation for both German and Korean GEOs. Her work is published in literary and scientific journals around the world, including Taiwan, North America, the Netherlands and India. Currently, Liana dwells in Fremantle, Western Australia, where she writes full time as well as teaching at several local universities. She co-exists peacefully with a husband, two cats, and a garden full of red-back spiders.