Author
Zewlan Moor is an author, GP and bibliotherapist who writes playful books for today’s savvy kids. Now living on the land of the Yugambeh people at the Gold Coast with her husband and two children, Zewlan loves to read, practise medicine and combine the two through her private practice, Byron Bibliotherapy. Her books are sometimes multi-layered, with a quirky sense of humour and light touch that belies their serious intent. Other times they’re just fun.
In her reading and writing, Zewlan is preoccupied with themes of identity, language, power and social justice. Which sounds very dry, but isn’t. Especially when wrapped in a picture book/cozy mystery/dark academia/romcom package. She is very grateful to the teachers and mentors who have helped her along the way, and for her boring childhood which made her into a reader.
Zewlan has two upcoming books coming out in the United States. While you wait, try Nothing Alike (illustrated by Peter Cheong, Bright Light imprint of Hardie Grant), about a white boy who just can’t tell his two Asian classmates apart. It’s based on her son’s experience as a white boy and her experience as an Asian person who has been repeatedly mistaken for other Asian people, even though they look nothing alike. The Bill Dup (illustrated by Simon O’Carrigan, Windy Hollow) is about a five-year old boy’s first experience of rain. It is based on a newspaper article and her country childhood.