In the Eye of a Storm (7 page)

Mary
Mageau is an award-winning composer and writer. Born and educated in the United
States, she has lived in Australia since 1974. Her writings in the Japanese
verse forms of haiku, tanka and haibun are published in the United States by
Red Moon Press and MET Press. Mary's poetry also appears in American, Canadian
and Australian anthologies and literary journals. In 2010 Blemish Books,
published twenty of her haibun poems in Triptych Poets, Volume I.

Mary
loves to travel and to write historical fiction. Her two historical romances,
The
Trousseau
and
An Antique Brooch
, explore the early South Pacific
settlement of New Caledonia and Norfolk Island during the 1850s and 60s. A
third novella,
In the Eye of a Storm
, is set in Paris during the time of
the French Revolution. The three novellas are written for young adults and
general readers alike.