Jill Koolmees

Dutch-Australian Jill Koolmees grew up on a flower farm in the hills east of Melbourne. After graduating in Politics, Literature and Education, she took to the road, working as a Jill-of-all-trades to fund her travels to places as far flung as Morocco, India, Japan and the USA. Upon her return to Australia at the start of the 1990s, she became an English language teacher. She lives with her husband in North Melbourne, where she tends a rampant garden and dreams of her next journey.