Libby-Jane Charleston began her career at the age of 19 as one of the youngest-ever columnists on the West Australian newspaper. 

She's an award winning short story writer who has been a TV anchor, a Beijing correspondent and a newspaper journalist. 

Her writing has appeared in Great Australian Bites (Penguin) as well as the anthology, Some Girls Do; My Life as a Teenager (Allen and Unwin), What Is Mother Love (Penguin) and the upcoming anthology Your Mother Would Be Proud (Random House 2009) She has also won the prestigious Hong Kong short story competition.

She graduated from Australia's Curtin University's BA course and completed a Master of Arts Writing course at Sydney's University of Technology; handing in her MA thesis (which became the novel Light Sweet Crude) just five days before giving birth to twins.

Her introduction to motherhood inspired her to write The Mommy Mafia Handbook and she has also co-written the screenplay, which is currently in development in L.A. 

She wrote, acted and directed a short film Son Of A Bitch and the upcoming Princess Leia Gets Lost. She is also the author of the children's books The Magic Twins and I Will Love You Until…

Libby-Jane has also been a catwalk model, radio show host and a TV reporter whose speciality in Hong Kong was reporting live from the scene of typhoons – but none of this prepared her for the onslaught of motherhood.

Libby-Jane lives in Sydney with her husband and three sons. She will love them until the Statue of Liberty sits down.