Described by one of her children as a 'book writing machine', Australian author Melissa Pouliot has always loved to write. Her early childhood stories about princesses, fairies and goblins inspired by authors such as Enid Blyton and May Gibbs evolved to teenage soap operas and adventure stories inspired by Trixie Beldon, Sweet Valley High and her own experiences. While studying a Commerce university degree, she wrote her first unpublished piece for friends and family based on when she worked a governess on a sheep station in outback Queensland. After an epiphany on a train late one night in Sydney, she changed her university studies from numbers to words. She returned to the harsh outback Queensland heat to start her media career before moving south to the flat, arid landscape of Western Victoria to work in the busy newsroom of a tri-weekly paper. When her first child was six months old she started her own media company. Through her journalism career and her own business, she has written stories on just about every topic. Her stories about people are widely recognised as her true heart and she has published several non-fiction books. "Find Me," and "When You Find Me" follow the life of one of her favourite characters from her debut bestseller 'Write About Me'. All her novels are inspired by her own family's missing persons tragedy and her quest to highlight the lifelong scars families and friends of missing people carry as they struggle to understand the complexities that abound when someone is 'missing'. Through her fiction writing she has become a strong advocate for missing people around the world. Melissa lives with her family on the NSW South Coast where she writes every single day. See less