Carolyn Landon

Carolyn Landon is co-author with Daryl Tonkin of Jackson’s Track: Memoir of a Dreamtime Place (Penguin, Australia, 1999). Born in the USA, she came to Australia in 1968 as a traveller, hitchhiking by small aeroplane throughout the far norh. A teacher in Australian state schools for almost thirty years, she has written and published several musical plays with her husband, Larry Hills.

Landon has a Masters degree in biography and life writing from Monash University. In 2008 she published a biography of Bette Boyanton, Cups with No Handles: Memoirs of a Grassroots Activist (Ormond, Victoria: Hybrid Publishers).