lynn cook: born England 1964, migrated to Australia 1966, learned to read so as to amuse myself in church, very poor writer at school, got in trouble for not handing in essays, went to my first writing class in Adelaide in 1994 at the Adelaide Writer's Centre, did another writing class in Sydney in 1995 with Colleen Burke at the Sydney Writer's Centre, did more and more writing, was part of a group mentored at Varuna by Inez Baranay, did a Grad Cert of Writing at UTS, and now I'm doing a BA Communications at UTS.