American addition of Magenta McPhee, Holiday House, 2010

"Bateson... excels at depicting preadolescent girls and their relationships with the adults in their lives, and readers will appreciate the humor and truth in this latest novel." -Jennifer M. Brabander, The Horn Book Inc. May/June 2010.

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Australian friends and authors:
Kirsty Murray
James Roy
Matt Ottley
Anthony Eaton
Lia Hills
Sarah Davis
Isobelle Carmondy

Organisations:
www.australianpoetrycentre.org.au
www.fclc.com.au
www.slv.vic.gov.au
www.burrinja.org.au
cbca.org.au
www.randomhouse.com.au/woolshedpress
www.scholastic.com.au
www.erl.vic.gov.au

I write poetry, novels for young adults and junior fiction. I teach Professional writing and editing at Box Hill TAFE and Gipss TAFE, and regularly appear as a writer in schools and at writing festivals.

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"Bateson's is a sinewy yet limber prosody, the lively rhythms and delicate sound correspondences illuminating the sometimes tender, sometimes brutal imagery" -William Yeoman, The West Australian.

Available in poetry-friendly bookshops such as Collected Works and Readings.

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