Takeshita Demons (16 page)

CRTSTY BURNE

has joint New Zealand and Australian
citizenship, has travelled widely and
lived for several years in Japan as a teacher
and editor. It was during this time that she
became fascinated with Japanese folklore and
the supernatural yokai - demons - which are very
much a part of Japanese culture, but little known
outside Japan. Cristy has spent most of her career
as a science writer, and currently works for a
computing network designed to solve global problems.
She won a Young and Emerging Writer fellowship
with Varuna House, in the Blue Mountains,
Australia, and Takeshita Demons is her first
published book. Cristy and her family
live in Perth, Western Australia.