BIOGRAPHY

Lara Morgan is a pen name I use to write fantasy and science fiction. I have also written under the name Lara Martin as well as my maiden name, Lara Brncic – one which many find much more difficult to pronounce.

I’m a first generation Australian (my mother is Bermudian and my father Croatian) and I grew up in the towns of Mount Helena and Chidlow in the hills outside of Perth, Western Australia where the trees are tall, the summers are hot and it wasn’t unusual to find a snake in the grass down the back of the block. I was a bookworm of a kid spending a lot of nights reading with a torch when it was supposed to be lights out and wrote my first book when I was still in primary school: a blatantly plagiarized version of The Magic Faraway Tree – thank you so much Enid Blyton for your stellar imagination.

I completed a Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Western Australia and live in a small house on a large block with my husbannd and two children. If you want to know how I got published click on the Writing link for the full thrilling story.