Leonie Norrington is a Northern Territory author who grew up in the Barunga Aboriginal community, south of Katherine. She is passionate about presenting the outback as "normal, comfortable, home - a place where our culture is immersed in the land, where our families are strengthened by our living layer upon layer, generation upon generation on the same country - a place where we rejoice in the changes of the seasons and the spirits that are the land." (Leonie Norrington, n.d.)