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Australian author Grace Nolan was born in country Victoria and has lived most of her life in Melbourne apart from spending one year in Italy.
Grace loves reading and writing stories, poems and songs which she has done ever since she can remember. She has a passion for children’s literature and education and is a member of the Children’s Book Council of Australia and the Australian Society of Authors.
She has been a teacher for over thirty years with extensive experience in both primary and secondary school and her qualifications include a Graduate Diploma of Education in Children’s Literature and Master of Philosophy.
Grace has worked as a performer, co-creator and writer of all songs and co-writer of scripts for a fun show which toured Victorian kindergartens and pre-school centres teaching children about water safety. In recent years, Grace has taught English part-time at a coaching college in Melbourne and has been a reviewer for Reading Time, an online magazine for the Children's Book Council of Australia.
Grace is also the winner of numerous poetry awards including first prize in both the Dante Alighieri Italian Poetry Competition and in the Italian-Australian Writers’ Literary Association for original poem. She also won first prize in the International Festival of Italian Song for an original composition.
Together with her husband, Grace founded "The Nolan Historical Children's Literature Research Collection" at ACU library in Fitzroy, Melbourne, which contains around 5,000 books for academic study and research.
Grace now devotes as much time as she can to her writing. She is looking forward to sharing with her readers her One to Ten and Back Again series of three children’s books published by Big Sky Publishing.