Angela Crocombe was born in Sydney in the 1970s. She enjoyed a fairly idyllic childhood, spending much of her younger years exploring the native bushland around her home and never returning until dinnertime. Between the ages of seven and nine she was transported to the suffocating heat of Singapore, living in a high-rise apartment block and fostering a lifelong love affair with spicy Hawker food.
When she was ten, Angela's parents bought five acres near Dural in Sydney and she was fortunate enough to be given her first pony. Being entirely horse obsessed since birth, this was the culmination of Angela's early dreams. Every spare moment was focused on caring for and riding her pony, exploring bush trails on horseback and attending Pony Club. At the age of thirteen she was wrenched from this happy existence and taken to the surreal world of Boca Raton, Florida, home to the wealthy, the weird and the extremely wizened. She spent four long years in Florida and graduated from high school there, but was so eager to leave that she booked a flight home to Australia for the day following graduation.
Angela returned to Sydney but when her parents eventually moved to Wangaratta in country Victoria, Angela followed them and ended up in Melbourne.
In her early twenties, Angela enjoyed many long hiking trips in a diverse range of ecosystems including Frenchman's Cap in Tasmania, New Zealand's Abel Tasman track, Mount Snowdon in Wales, and many places around Victoria. She spent a lot of time camping and appreciating the great expanse of native Australia and the world.
Angela obtained a degree in Economics from Monash University but it was so boring that during the following year spent traipsing around Europe she forgot most of what she learnt. She returned home to take a Bachelor of Letters with Honours in Political Theory. She then began her career in publishing with a job as a sales representative for Cambridge University Press. Later she obtained a Graduate Diploma in Editing and Publishing at RMIT University in Melbourne and took classes in the RMIT Professional Writing course for many years. Since 2001, Angela has been working for Penguin Books.
Beginning with her role as News Sub-Editor on the student newspaper at Monash, Angela has always been interested in writing about the urgent issues of our times. Over the years she has written many articles on a variety of subjects and a number of educational books for Australian children on history, farming and environmental issues.
Angela has always been interested in conserving the natural environment and the need for humanity to live harmoniously with nature. Her book, A Lighter Footprint, was written in an attempt to influence and inform others about global warming and how they can help solve this climate crisis. It represents the culmination of her journey so far, but is still only another stepping stone on her path.