Colleen Hecker
Colleen Hecker was born in NSW, grew up in country Victoria, completed a Bachelor of Education in Visual Arts at The University of Melbourne and taught for ten years. After travelling with her family, Colleen found herself in Yeppoon, Queensland, where she continued her love of writing by studying a Bachelor of Arts at CQ University in Rockhampton. However, needing to put her studies on hold when her family moved again to Southern Queensland, Colleen didn’t give up her dream to be a novelist and continued to write while raising her family.