About the Author

Jane McKay is an Australian author, artist and graphic designer. She was born in Tasmania a very long time ago and if you are 7 it was a very, very long time ago.

She has worked as a primary school teacher in Tasmania but now lives in Perth Western Australia.

"Books have always taken me to the realms of the imagination. My parents read to me when I ws little and fostered my love of books till I was old enough to find what I wanted to read myself.

As a child, I would tell my younger sisters a story about a teddy bear called Harry, so they would be distracted enough to eat their dinner; and so I started telling stories of my own."

Tess and the Star Traveller is Jane McKay's first book.