Rachael Treasure lives in Southern Tasmania/Lutruwita with her two children and their farm animals, including a goat called Barbara Gordon. She is the co-founder of Ripple Farm Landscape Healing Hub and uses regenerative agricultural and natural sequence farming principles to restore farming landscape. Her first novel, Jillaroo, blazed a trail in the Australian publishing industry for other rural women writers and is now considered an iconic work of contemporary Australian fiction. Rachael is a rural business administration graduate of Sydney University's Orange Agricultural College and has a Bachelor of Arts in creative writing and journalism from Charles Sturt University in Bathurst. She has worked as a journalist for Rural Press and ABC Rural Radio. Rachael currently supplies holistic farm product to the online farmer's market, Tasmanian Produce Collective. Milking Time is her eighth novel.