DAYLE A. DERMATIS

Dayle Ashton was born in the Blue Mountains, Australia. Her family moved around New South Wales while she was growing up but she now lives near Canberra where she is studying creative writing. Dayle spent her teenage years writing poetry and fiction and has published three collections of poetry including Ain't Life (2012), Forever and Always(2013) and From a Café Window (2015). Dayle has also published poems in the First Refuge anthology (2016) and Love: A Collection of Poetry and Prose on Loving and Being Loved (2016). Molly's Dreams is her first novel.'I have a strong sense of social justice and hope that infiltrates my writing, particularly human rights and feminist issues which I feel very strongly about.''When I am not writing I like to dance around the house singing or wake early in the morning to listen to the birds talk about their day. Sometimes I walk in the shadows with my eyes open, seeking the moonlight. I also like to find the time and space for playing my guitar, reading, drawing, sleeping and other ways of procrastinating.'