Kirsty Murray was the middle child in a family of seven kids. Her curiosity about everything has led her on journeys all around the world, and she now lives in Melbourne with her husband and a gang of teenagers.
Kirsty is the author of Zarconi’s Incredible Travelling Circus, which won the Western Australian Premier's Award 2000 for Children's Books, as well as the novels Market Blues and Walking Home with Marie-Claire. Her non-fiction work includes Howard Florey Miracle Maker and Man-eaters and Blood-suckers.
Kirsty’s latest novel is Becoming Billy Dare, the second part of the Children of the Wind historical series about Irish child immigrants in Australia. Both Billy Dare and the first book in the series, Bridie’s Fire, feature the early days of Ballarat. | 
