BIOGRAPHY

FUN STUFF.		APPEARANCES
Cristy Burne is a science writer and children's author who has worked as *editor of CSIRO’s Scientriffic* magazine and as a performer with the Shell Questacon Science Circus. Cristy has presented shows, workshops and keynotes** to tens of thousands of children, parents and teachers across Australia and into South Africa.	In 2006 Cristy won a Young and Emerging Writer’s Residency at Varuna House and in 2008 she won the Voices on the Coast Children’s Writing Competition. Cristy is half-Kiwi, half-Aussie and worked in Japan, the UK and Switzerland before returning to sunny Perth.	Book 1 in Cristy's Takeshita Demons series won the 2009 Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award and was selected to be part of the 2010 BookTrust Booked Up program in the UK. *Takeshita Demons: The Filth Licker* came out June 2011, and *Takeshita Demons: Monster Matsuri* is scheduled for 2012.