Lystra Rose

Lystra Rose, a descendant of the Guugu

Yimithirr, Birri Gubba, Erub and Scottish

nations, is an award-winning writer and editor

who lives in a land where the rainforest meets

the sea . . . Yugambeh-speaking Country (Gold

Coast), Australia. When she's not catching

waves with her husband and their two groms,

Lystra is editing Surfing Life magazine and

is the executive producer of Surfing Life TV

(globally broadcasted on Fuel TV). She is the

first female editor-in-chief of a mainstream

surf magazine in the world. Surfing is Lystra's

daily reminder to 'let fear be your friend, not

your foe, and use it to do the things you love

or were meant to do'. It's also her creativity

generator.

The Upwelling is Lystra's debut novel.