About

Alethea is an author, teacher and archaeologist. She has worked in high schools as an English teacher and at the School of Education at La Trobe University, where she specialised in Interdisciplinary Approaches, Humanities, and Creative Arts. As well as freelancing as a writer and proofreader, she hosts writing and archaeology workshops for school groups.

As an archaeologist, she has worked in a variety of strange and interesting places, including the sawpits at Port Arthur and a cave in the Czech Republic. She also designed and delivered school education programs for the Young Archaeologists’ Program at La Trobe University.

After discovering a cavernous gap in Australian Curriculum History resources, she wrote Ancient Australia Unearthed, a student text that uses archaeology to tell the history of Australia’s ancient past.

In 2015, Ancient Australia Unearthed was shortlisted for an ABDA Award in the Education category and for an EPAA Award in the Secondary Education category.

In 2018, she published her YA novel, Lightning Tracks, the first book in a dark alternative history/fantasy series. Lightning Tracks was a finalist in the Best Fantasy Novel category for the Aurealis Awards.

She is currently working on her second YA novel, Dark Sun Rising, which is the sequel to Lightning Tracks.

When she’s not teaching or writing, Alethea devotes her time to raising a little tribe of boys.