Fiona McIlroy, trainer and life coach, founded Inspire ACT. Her works other than poetry include Overcoming the Cocoon of Isolation (Women in Belconnen Region) a report for Belconnen Community Service (1994); Keeping it in the Family, a report on factors surrounding crisis for people of non-English speaking cultures for the Migrant Resource Centre of Canberra (1995); 'Kindle That Spark: Coaching and Motivation', published in the Australian Journal of Adult Learning (Vol 24, No 1, 2002) and revising and editing the 2003 edition of The Cultural Dictionary for the Migrant Resource Centre of Canberra;