I’m Gail Pascoe, a Melbourne-based writer, and I have a daughter conceived using an American sperm donor.
My previous lives have included a secondary school physical education teacher in Melbourne and London, where I regularly faced teenagers - mostly taller and stronger than me - armed with cricket bats and hockey sticks. A little lost after returning home from three and a half years of travel through Europe, Central America and Asia, I moved into 'corporate world' where I worked for a dozen or more (increasingly yawn-producing) years as a trainer, and writer of training materials.
In my spare time I love to spend time with my daughter, especially in the kitchen where we bake many vegan delights together. I also spend a lot of time reading (am only choosing Australian women writers at the moment), power walking in the Dandenong Ranges with the wallabies, meditating (this keeps me sane), trying not to consume too much chocolate, and talking my daughter out of becoming a teacher (just kidding, teachers do an outstanding and phenomenal job - this I know!).
