Donna grew up by the seaside where she dreamed of wonderful adventures and visual delights. Childhood was such a place of happiness and discovery that she was drawn to education to encourage others to experience the pure joys of learning, not just from books, but from the ever creative mind and higher order thinking opportunities education offered.

Donna is an advocate of education, literacy and children's literature. As a published author, her works range from early years to young adult prose. She is a registered teacher (trained early childhood to tertiary level) and taught for many years as well as working as an Academic Dean, as well as a lecturer for Queensland University. Donna's academic and passionate interests lie within Literacy and Children's Literature, specifically picture books, where she presents at Conferences, Education Professional Development and to the Community. Donna wrote and directed Books Alive- Early Childhood Literacy on the Air, a radio program which aired during her teaching years on South Eastern Qld radio stations. As an Academic and Curriculum Consultant she has invested in many primary and middle schools as well as libraries, along with serving for many years on the Children's Book Council State Committee.

Donna is the Academic, Education and Children's Author for Queensland Museum and has written many titles for this publishing house, 7 published by 2010 and a further ten due for print in 2011. Donna is well known for her comprehensive and creative teacher notes often accompanied with musical scores, composed for the verse texts of her collections. She writes teacher notes for various publishing houses and enjoys supporting teachers by contributing to creative pedagogy through these rich resources all found on her website: www.donnadyson.com

More than the educator, Donna is a child advocate working within fields of inclusivity and equality for children internationally. Donna presently writes for the Queensland Museum and leading Australian publishers contributing to many genres, ages, and literacy skills within her educational writing scope. Donna's love of music finds her creating many works in verse, though narrative novels roll out just as quickly. Donna Dyson lives in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - with her husband, and their fluffy family of three spoilt Tibetan Spaniel dogs and one Himalayan cat (who thinks by default that she is also a dog!). When not writing at a desk or café table, Donna's other loves are European travel, family time, supporting the arts and falling into pages of a good book at a local café where new ideas evoke for original works! She wrote her first story at seven and hopes to be writing her last at 97. Having recently become vision impaired, Donna is now an Ambassador for Vision Australia.