Debra Gavranich

Debra Gavranich grew up on a sugarcane farm near Mossman in Far North Queensland. Both her parents were born on the Croatian island of Korčula, near Split, but her father’s family migrated to Australia in the 1920s to work on the cane fields. Much later, in 1952, her mother came out as a ‘proxy’ bride. Debra has travelled extensively and lived and worked overseas. She has a dream to divide her time between the islands of Croatia (where most of her extended family still live) and the tropical city of Cairns, where she works as a physiotherapist and lives with her husband. The girl who left is her first book.