A fourth generation grazier, Nicole Alexander spent six years at boarding school in Sydney, completed a BA through the University of New England before taking up a marketing career in Singapore and Australia. Eleven years ago she returned to the family's wheat/cattle station in Moree, northern New South Wales and is now its business manager. Not only is she a working partner and business manager of a mixed agricultural property but she is also a talented writer. Her poetry, travel and genealogy articles have been published in Australia, America and Singapore. She has a Master of Letters in creative writing and is currently working on her next book.