Liza grew up in Australia where she worked as a general nurse and a midwife. When she met her French husband on a Bangkok bus, she moved to France. She now works as a French-English medical translator, and as a novelist.After completing a creative writing course sixteen years ago, several of her short stories won awards, notably the Writers Bureau, 2004, and others have been published widely in anthologies and small press magazines. Her articles on French culture are published in international magazines such as France Magazine, France Today and The Good Life France.She is the author of the French historical The Bone Angel series. Three French village midwife-healers. Three stories spanning six hundred years. Three women linked by an ancient bone talisman and bonded by living through turbulent times –– the Black Death, the French Revolution, the WWII Nazi Occupation.The first in the series, Spirit of Lost Angels won the EFestival of Words 2013, Historical Fiction category. It was Shortlisted in the Writing Magazine Self-Publishing Awards, 2013, and was featured in “Off the Beaten Path” recommendations, Historical Novel Society Conference, 2013.The second novel, Wolfsangel, was shortlisted in the 2019 Exeter Novel Prize: http://www.creativewritingmatters.co.uk/2019-exeter-novel-prize.htmlThe third, Blood Rose Angel, was longlisted in the 2015Mslexia Novel Competition.The first novel in her Australian family drama series, The Silent Kookaburra is set in 1970s Australia.The second edition of the second novel, The Swooping Magpie, was published in December, 2020.The third, The Lost Blackbird, was published in August, 2020.