Grace Nolan

Grace Nolan holds a Graduate Diploma of Education in Children’s Literature and a Master of Philosophy. She is an experienced Primary and Secondary teacher and winner of numerous poetry competitions. She was also awarded first prize in an International Song contest for an original composition. Grace was also a script writer, composer and performer as well as being a reviewer for the Children’s Book Council of Australia. Together with her husband, she founded "The Nolan Historical Children's Literature Research Collection" at ACU library Melbourne, which contains around 5,000 books for academic study and research.
Grace’s love of nature and Australian wildlife have provided the inspiration for the One to Ten and Back Again series. Drawing on her extensive educational background and her enthusiasm for children’s literature, Grace now devotes most of her time to her writing.