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Paulette Gittins was born in Kings Cross, Sydney, in 1949. The product of a traditional Catholic education, she draws upon this experience and her childhood in the inner-city Sydney suburbs in her work.
Educated in both Sydney and Melbourne, she graduated from Monash University, Victoria, in 1972 with a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Education, which established her career for a number of years as a teacher of English, French and History, to which she added Japanese in the 1980s.
Paulette has written a large body of short stories, a number of which have won prizes in national literary competitions. The Secret Life of Annette Robinson is her first novel.
Paulette now lives in Melbourne.
Sourced: HarperCollins Australia.
23 April 2004
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