Christine harris author biography outline

The summer ’09 issue of Alphabet Soup includes a Q&A with Christine Harris. We decided to publish the Q&A here too, with a couple of extra sections that didn’t fit onto the pages for the magazine layout!

Christine Harris is the author of 50 books, including Audrey of the Outback.

(She claims not to sit in trees when she writes these days. Perhaps it’s too hard to lug a computer up there.)

What do you love best about being a writer?
The surprises, in both the writing and the things I learn about the world, myself and my characters.

The readers that I meet in person and through emails, I love their enthusiasm and eccentric ways of viewing life.

Freedom and the ability to make a difference with my words.

Where do you live?
In my head mostly.

But my house is in Mt Barker, South Australia

What made you become a writer?
An impulse that I can only describe as a driving