Meryl Brown Tobin

Meryl Brown Tobin, is an Australian writer of short and long fiction for adults and children,
non-fiction, especially on travel and the environment, poetry and educational puzzles. She has had 21
books published. These include puzzle/activity books, black-line masters books of educational puzzles,
workbooks for primary students, a travel book, a children’s picture storybook, a poetry collection and a
haiku collection with four other poets. She has also edited one book and co-edited two others. In total,
nearly 300,000 copies of her first four puzzle books, which were published by Ashton Scholastic, were
sold in Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
Hundreds of her poems, puzzles, short stories and travel and other articles, and some cartoons and comic
strips have appeared in more than 150 magazines, newspapers and anthologies in Australia and overseas,
including India, Japan, Singapore and Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, the United Kingdom and
the USA. Some of her stories and poems have been broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Commission
and other radio stations while others have been published on the Internet. As a guest on the set of Ch7’s
children’s program The Book Place, she read her story LEFTY with regular presenter, Lynn Weston.