AustLit

June Alexander grew up on a family dairy farm in Victoria in the 1950s. One of two daughters, she was her father's shadow on the farm. Her mother called her 'Tim'. She attended a one-room primary school. Around puberty she began to experience what today would be called a body image problem. In Grade Six, she developed anorexia nervosa, a psychiatric illness that would challenge and shape her life. A journalist since the age of 18, Alexander worked for many years on rural and suburban newspapers as senior writer, editor and newspaper columnist.

Source: Author's website http://www.junealexander.com/