Fiona Antony, the debut author of the children's book 'Milly & Sammy', is from Portland, Victoria. She has been working as a Registered Nurse, predominantly as a District Nurse and Community Palliative Care Nurse, locally over the last 12 years. Fiona has grown up immersed in the arts: particularly music, theatre and children's literature and loves that you can be taken away from reality and plunged into a world of colour, adventure and make-believe. It was from this love of the arts, coupled with the 2021 COVID lockdown that 'Milly & Sammy' was created.

Fiona also runs a small beef farm with her husband and it's the animals on this farm that have inspired the characters in her book. Fiona's love of children's literature grew even more when she became a Mum. She now has school-aged boys and is step Mum to young adults, who have also inspired her writings.

In a child-friendly and colourful way, 'Milly and Sammy' is the first book in a series that tackles big childhood experiences such as courage, inclusion, kindness, honesty, resilience in the face of adversity, cancer, grief and loss, change and ageing.