Wilda Moxham is the daughter of a Canadian father and a New Zealand mother. Born in Perth, she was educated in various towns and cities in Australia and New Zealand as her family moved with her father's engineering jobs. Moxham became a reporter, and later editor, with a country Queensland newspaper. She also worked with the Red Cross and as a nurse and a clerk. In addition to fiction writing Moxham's interests include horse racing and riding, golf, swimming, books and films.
(Source: The Apprentice, 1969)