Maureen B. Roberts has worked, studied, created and taught in a broad variety of interweaving fields. She holds a PhD in English Literature and Jungian Psychology, with a thesis on the Romantic poet John Keats, and also studied Astronomy as part of a university Science degree. She has received two university literary prizes: The Sir Archibald Strong Memorial Prize for Literature, and The Edith Hubbe and Harriet Cook Prize.Over several decades she has widely published non-fiction papers and artwork in the arenas of Jungian psychology, contemporary mythology, and shamanism, and for thirty years ran a private practice as a depth and shamanic psychotherapist. She has also worked as an editor, singer/songwriter and musician, graphic artist and photographer, and has taught university and adult education courses ranging from science fiction and astronomy to literature, Jungian psychology and Medicine Wheel work. She has hosted her own radio show, was a regular guest on ABC Radio, and has been a guest speaker for The Mythopoeic Literature Society of Australia, The Theosophical Society and the C. G. Jung Society of South Australia, among others.She has independently published An Era in Anddemar under her own imprint, Vandrassian Press, in order to retain full creative and editorial control. Her book StarDreaming: Letters from a Mystic to a Science Fiction Author was published by Collective Ink Books (London) in September 2026, and Soul Among the Stars: A New Myth of the Cosmos as Love will follow from Collective Ink Books in 2027.Now retired to focus on writing, Maureen lives in a cottage in a quiet country town near the sea, on South Australia's beautiful Fleurieu Peninsula, where she enjoys gardening, fire circles and music jams with friends, and coastal bushwalking.