Stella Turner was born and educated in Victoria but has spent time in Japan, Europe and England. She has been a cellist and a lover of the Australian bush, having spent thirty years living in Emerald in the Dandenongs. Turner has compiled Twenty-Five Wildflowers of the Dandenongs (1996), which contains botanical descriptions of flowers with notes on their location and appearance as well as gardening tips. She has received various awards for poetry including the Charles Meeking prize for verse in 1983. Her poem Lost Valley Olinda was set to music by Wendy Morrissey and won the 1985 Henry Lawson prize for Classical Song. An interest in short story writing and children's literature inspired her to work on a book titled Music for Young Children with the well known illustrator Bob Graham.
Source: Stella Turner, From the Dandenongs (1986)
