About Jackey

– author since 1993
– freelance writer & editor since 1998
– writing tutor & mentor since 2010
– artist, botanical art & travel sketchbooks; solo show 2024
– radio presenter, music & music writing, since 1980s

Master of Arts (Writing & Literature), Deakin University; Certificate 4 (Training)
Member, Institute of Professional Editors and Writers Victoria

At the moment, I’m …
– researching roots music for my May and June radio segments
– finetuning sketches and editing photos from Melanesia in April
– reading Sue Prideaux’s Wild Thing: a life of Paul Gauguin

Wordy-Gurdy morphed out of freelance music–travel–lifestyle writing, editing and proofreading, with main client Lonely Planet (2003–13), and published Indian Summers: Mumbai and beyond by Ian Cochrane in 2011.
Also that year, Jackey was headhunted to become founding editor of business magazines Strategic Super Investor (Summit) and Inside Small Business (Octomedia).
– publisher client list Black Inc., Bonnier Publishing Australia, Burnet Institute, Deakin University, Lonely Planet, Major Street Publishers, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Octomedia, Wild Dingo Press, John Wiley & Sons, Wilkinson Publishing as well as fiction and nonfiction authors, academics and small businesses

Places lived – Melbourne, Australia; London, UK; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Sydney, NSW; Warmun, WA; Port Germein, SA

Travel – recent trips:
2025 – Hunter region, NSW. Darwin, NT; Thursday Island, Qld; Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji. To come: England, France, Spain, Portugal, Africa, Canary Islands
2024 – Texas, Florida & Louisiana, USA. Te Ika-a-Māui, Aotearoa; Tuamotu, Marquesas & Society Islands; Japan, South Korea & Taiwan
2023 – Te Ika-a-Māui, Aotearoa; Tasmania; Townsville, Qld; Canberra; regional Victoria
2022 – South Australia; Western Europe & UK; Far North Queensland