Liz Byrski is an Australian literature and fiction author and media personality with more than five decades of experience in the Australian and British media. She was born in London and spent most of her childhood in Sussex. As an only child, she spent a lot of time alone, much of it buried in books. Byrski began her working life as a secretary and later moved into journalism, working as a reporter on a local newspaper. She took up freelance writing when her children were born, and also worked as an appeals organizer for Oxfam before moving to Western Australia.
After moving to Perth with her family in 1981, Byrski once again established a freelance career writing for Australian publications including The Australian, Homes and Living, Cosmopolitan and Weekend News. She has authored more than ten novels and over a dozen nonfiction works, and her work has been featured in international and national magazines and newspapers. During the 1990s, she was executive producer and broadcaster in Perth, where she worked with ABC Radio before she was hired as an advisor to one of the ministers in the State government of Western Australia. Byrski went to the Notre Dame Convent in Surrey from where she graduated in 1960 before she proceeded to Crawley College and the Wall Hall College of Education from where she would get her doctorate on feminist popular fiction. Byrski's first job was working as a secretary for a small firm of exterminators in Sussex at the very young age of 16. She then moved on to work on the Horley Advertiser, an affiliate of Surrey Mirror Newspapers as a journalist before she got a job working at the Curtin University’s Faculty of Humanities as an Associate Professor.