Deborah Frenkel
Author of Children’s Fiction
based in VIC
Deborah is an awarded writer of picture books and an as-yet-unawarded starer-outer-er of windows. Her books include the CBCA-shortlisted Naturopolis, The Sydney Harbour Fairy, 100 School Days and The Truck Cat, which is the 2025 National Simultaneous Storytime title.
When she’s not writing books, she’s writing other things you might have read (billboards, bus ads, the words on the back of cereal boxes), which means she’s a great source of unsolicited trivia. She also loves visiting schools and libraries and swapping window-staring for collaborative creativity.
She lives on Bunurong land, in Melbourne’s inner west, with her family and an enormous tuxedo cat.
