Paula Henriksen was posted to the Solomon Islands in 2010 as a Senior Program Development Specialist for the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID). This was her first overseas po...view morePaula Henriksen was posted to the Solomon Islands in 2010 as a Senior Program Development Specialist for the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID). This was her first overseas posting with AusAID, although she had undertaken many short missions since joining the Agency in 2005 as a health specialist. Previously, Paula worked for the Department of Health and Ageing and in the non-government sector.
In 2013 the Australian Government merged AusAID into the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and in 2014 Paula left DFAT to devote her time to writing. Her short story An Unpredictable Land was published in the 2015 Stringybark 'Travellers Tales' anthology. She has two daughters and lives in Canberra .view less