Liz Porter
, b. 1951
Liz Porter was born in 1951 in Temora, New South Wales. After attending school in Armidale, NSW, she studied at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She became a teacher of English, History and special education in secondary schools in NSW and Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory. She travelled extensively in Israel, and Europe, subsequently teaching in Las Palmas, in the Canary Islands for several years.
Returning to Australia in 1989, Liz Porter worked as a relief teacher in Canberra and set up her own small publishing company, Gnu Publishing, under which The Muddle-Headed Minotaur is published. Porter has written, illustrated and published two other children’s books, The Knock-kneed Gnu from Dubbo Zoo and The Brave Aadvark from Taronga Park. She has also published cartoons, poems and illustrations in bridge magazines.
Sources:
Porter, Liz, The Muddle-Headed Minotaur, Preface.
Bio prepared by Margaret Bromley, University of New England, brom_ken@bigpond.net.au, mbromle5@une.edu
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