Shirley Fung, born Ong Aing Hon, is a Penang-born Australian Chinese. She was awarded a Colombo Plan Scholarship to study at Monash University, Melbourne, in 1967, and graduated wi...view moreShirley Fung, born Ong Aing Hon, is a Penang-born Australian Chinese. She was awarded a Colombo Plan Scholarship to study at Monash University, Melbourne, in 1967, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Hons) and a Diploma of Education. She later graduated with a Bachelor of Arts at Deakin University and she has worked as a science educator and later as the Director of Curriculum at Mount Scopus Memorial College, Melbourne. She has had eight books on biology and environmental science published previously by Longman Cheshire, and also wrote for the "Sun Study" page of the 'Herald Sun' newspaper from 1981 to 1986. This is her first novel.view less