Cirrus@Austlit

Sandy Bigna is a writer with a particular focus on children's ficition: she studied children's literature at the University of Canberra, before working as a children's librarian in a public library. She later completed a PhD at the University of Canberra (awarded in 2015) for a young-adult novel manuscript (then called Scar) and an exegesis called Mothers Empowering Daughters: Narrative Strategies that Reverse Freudian Narrative Plots of the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Young Adult Fiction.