"Amy Witting" is the pen name of Joan Austral Fraser, an Australian novelist, poet, and career educator. As a teenager, Witting published a poem in the Sydney Morning Herald; she continued to pursue her interests in literature and language as a student at the University of Sydney. Witting subsequently received a Diploma of Education; she worked as a teacher, married Les Levick, and eventually began publishing her adult work, starting with short stories in the 1950s.
To some extent, professional creative writing can be understood as a late-in-life pursuit for Witting: The Visit (1977), her first published novel, appeared when she was almost 60. The fate of I for Isobel (1989), which...
