Captain Stella

Ruth Starke is the author of the best-selling Dead Red, Starstruck and Muck-Up Day, in the Crime Waves series; NIPS XI (Honour Book, CBCA Awards, 2001; Honour Book, 2003 UNESCO Prize for Children’s Literature in the Service of Tolerance); NIPS Go National (a ‘Top Australian Title 2003’, Youth Literature Centre); and Saving Saddler Street, in the Takeaways series, published by Lothian Books. Dr Starke teaches English at Flinders University and creative writing at Adelaide TAFE and UniSA, and reviews for Viewpoint and Australian Book Review. She lives in Goodwood, SA.