'Prue Gorman has changed direction many times in the last twenty years, graduating from studies in psychology to working in the public service, from caring for her children to caring for the aged, returning full circle to student again....Prue lives in the Adelaide Hills with a man, three children and assorted multi-legged animals'. (Painted Words,1999, p 162) In 1999 she was a postgraduate student in Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide.
