Jane Ellyson has a deep connection to the far north coast of New South Wales in Australia where her first novel Over Byron Bay is set. Her great grandparents owned a farm a little way out of Byron Bay and grandparents a farm at nearby Mullumbimby. She currently lives at Possum Creek just out of Bangalow in northern New South Wales, Australia. Her novels include Boy from Bangalow, Over Byron Bay, Substitute Child, Roman Roulette, Missing in Myanmar and Nonsense in the North.