Kerrie O'Connor
Kerrie O'Connor fell in love with making up stories when she was 8 years old. She became a journalist when she was 18. Her career has spanned print and radio and she has won awards for investigative reporting. Through the Tiger's Eye is dedicated to the children Kerrie met in Africa while working as a journalist.
'Journalism is very strict,' Kerrie says. 'You have to stick to the facts. I love it, but I can't wait to get home and start making things up, especially about children and animals. That's when I have the most fun!'
Kerrie was born in the Year of the Tiger and had 21 cats at one time when she was a little girl. 'They were my best friends!' she says. 'They taught me everything.' These days she doesn't live with any cats, much to the relief of the water dragons in her creek, but she still says 'hi' when she sees one.
“Then Dad started going on about the complex geological formations in this part of the coast until Mum told him to shut up. But she was smiling when she said it. Lucy liked that.”