Denise Main was born and grew up in Bendigo, Australia. She trained as a general nurse at the Northern District School of Nursing and maintained registration through many years of district nursing,...voir plusDenise Main was born and grew up in Bendigo, Australia. She trained as a general nurse at the Northern District School of Nursing and maintained registration through many years of district nursing, community health nursing (including at the Eaglehawk and Long Gully Community Health Centre, one of Australia's first community health centres) and lecturing in public health at La Trobe University.Denise was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study community responses to child sexual abuse in the USA and Canada. She holds a Master of Health Science and a Graduate Diploma in Community Nursing.On relocating to Point Lonsdale, Victoria, Denise completed a Diploma in Visual Art. She joined the Geelong Gallery Guides and the SpringDale Artists with whom she paints and exhibits. She also became an inaugural member of the Queenscliff Rip Writers and was inspired to write. Her first book, Mission: Angela, was published in 2022 by Feather Knight Books.Denise and Ian began writing Voices of the Whipstick, a fiction inspired by fragments of a true story, in the winter of 2020, during the first of many Victorian COVID-19 pandemic winter lockdowns.voir moins