About the Author

Samantha Turnbull is a multi-award winning journalist currently working at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. In 2003 she was the youngest finalist in Australia's premiere media awards, The Walkleys, and has since been named Journalist of the Year and Young Journalist of the Year several times in the Prodis (Northern NSW Journalism Awards), and Feature Writer of the Year in the APN annual journalism awards. Her writing has been featured in publications including ABC online, the Canberra Times, Daily Telegraph, Northern Star, SHE magazine, Cosmopolitan and the Walkley magazine