Author

 Nicole Alexander

Nicole Alexander grew up on her family’s agricultural property north-west of Moree in northern NSW. She has spent half her life in the bush with The Correspondence School providing her early education. She has a BA from the University of New England and a Master of Letters in creative writing from Central Queensland University. In the course of her career Nicole has worked both in Australia and abroad in financial services, fashion, corporate publishing and agriculture. A fourth generation grazier Nicole returned to the bush in the late `90s. She is currently the business manager on her family’s agricultural property.

Nicole’s poetry, travel and genealogy articles have been published in Australia, America and Singapore. She is the author of the bestselling The Bark Cutters (Pub. 2010) Shortlisted for the ABIAs Newcomer of The year Award for a debut novel and the highest selling debut novel in the rural literature genre – Ever!

The sequel A Changing Land is out now and is a Top Ten bestseller.

Other works include the 2005 non-fiction title, How To Get A Girl-a glovebox guide for men and Divertissements – Love. War. Society (2008) her first poetry collection, which draws from a body of work published over the preceding sixteen years. Nicole is an in-demand event speaker and a regular contributor to New England Country Living Magazine. She is currently writing her third novel inbetween being a ‘hands-on’ working partner and business manager of her family’s 1893 selected property.

During 2012 Nicole is a  proud ‘Supporter’ of  The Australian Year of The Farmer & a ‘friend’ of The National Year Of Reading.