Rikkaine Thompson lives in the Northern Territory of Australia with her wonderful husband, one boisterous child, and two grumpy teenagers, and a puppers named Toby.
Eldest of three, she was born and raised in Darwin to teacher parents who fostered a love of reading. Her early years were filled with love, light and the written word, a love that has followed her all through life.
Her family moved to Katherine, where she met her now-husband and they fell in love. At band camp. Before the movie was popular.
After graduating high school, she and her husband moved back Darwin. Having children put a dampener on writing for a time, but as they started school, she found herself with a lot more free time to pursue the things she loved which don't run away on stubby little legs giggling like crazy when she caught them.
Her parents taught her how to read, then how to turn the written word into pictures in her head, and she taught herself how to put them on paper. Or a post-it note. Or on the inside of her wrist in permanent marker at two in the morning.