Mary Garden is an award-winning author and freelance journalist whose work has been published worldwide. She holds a PhD in Journalism (USC). In the early 1990s, she was editor and project manager for several publications of Maleny’s Black Possum Publishing Co-operative. Her first book, The Serpent Rising, a memoir of her years in India in the 1970s, was published in 1988. She has since published a biography of her father, Sundowner of the Skies (2019), shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s History Award 2020.
Her memoir, My Father’s Suitcase (2024), which has won multiple international awards.
