Author, Journalist and Speaker  | A lifetime love of words and writing has helped June beat her eating disorders, starting with Anorexia Nervosa at the age of eleven. She won a pen for her first essay competition at the age of nine and trapped rabbits on her parents’ farm to sell their pelts to help buy books. A journalist since the age of eighteen, June worked for many years on rural and suburban newspapers as senior writer, editor and newspaper columnist. In 2006 she turned her attention to researching and writing books about eating disorders and mental health issues. June’s book My Kid is Back – Empowering Parents to Beat Anorexia Nervosa, written in collaboration with Professor Daniel le Grange, of the University of Chicago, was released by Melbourne University Publishing in April 2009. Routledge acquired exclusive rights for My Kid Is Back for the United Kingdom, Europe and North America, launching the book in London in March 2010. June’s memoir, A Girl Called Tim, is in the hands of Australian literary agent Margaret Gee. A textbook with international eating disorder experts and case studies is being co-authored by June with Professor Janet Treasure, of King’s College, London. This book, with the working title of Opening the Door on Eating Disorders, is due for release by Routledge in 2011. |
June Alexander - Curriculum VitaeBrief BiographyJune Alexander, born December 1950, at Bairnsdale. Raised on dairy farm. Began journalism career at 18. Resigned from full-time newspaper career at age 56 to write books about and raise awareness of eating disorders and mental health generally. Lives by Corio Bay at Clifton Springs on the Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria, Australia. Member of Drysdale Club of Rotary International, and national and international eating disorder academies. Four children and three grandchildren. Wonderful friends. Enjoy daily walks by seashore with Staffordshire terrier Harley. Enjoy flower and vegetable garden, sunsets and living in the moment. | | 2011 | Co-editor with Professor Janet Treasure of King’s College, London of Opening the Door on Eating Disorders, an international textbook on eating disorders for the health profession to be published by Routledge (UK) mid-2011. Memoir on eating disorder journey with Margaret Gee, literary agent. | | 2010, June | Recipient of one of two international scholarships to attend International Conference on Eating Disorders in Salzburg, Austria. The award is in recognition of work in raising awareness of eating disorders.
| | 2010, March | London launch of My Kid is Back. Routledge (UK), acquired European and North American rights to My Kid is Back, (collaborator is Prof. Daniel Le Grange, University of Chicago) with the launch taking place in London at a National Family Network Day as part of the Eating Disorder International Conference (EDIC).
| | 2009 | Launch of My Kid Is Back, Empowering Parents to Beat Anorexia Nervosa in Melbourne, Australia. | | 2007-2008 | Researching/Writing My Kid Is Back, a family-based early intervention treatment for anorexia nervosa. Written in collaboration with Professor Daniel le Grange, director of the Eating Disorder unit at the University of Chicago. Foreword by Dr Ivan Eisler, King’s College, London. | 2005-2007
| Editor of The Great Southern Star newspaper, Leongatha.
| | 2006 | Editor of Tucker ‘n’ Tales, social history of women who settled in the Latrobe Valley region of Victoria. | | 2004-2007 | Editor Gippsland Rural Women’s Network newsletter. | | 2004-2005 | Columnist with Pakenham-Berwick Gazette, with a weekly column/page, A Slice of Life with June Alexander. | | 1993-2004 | Associate Editor, Country Living Editor/ Miranda columnist on The Weekly Times newspaper, based in Melbourne.
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| Author of Australian Yarn Art, Knitting Stories and Designs. Launched at Bendigo Sheep Show. | | 2001 | Author of Heartbeat of the Country, a Social History of Rural Australia, 1931 to 2001. HWT publication | | 1984-2004 | Employed with The Herald and Weekly Times (HWT), Melbourne, as sub-editor on Melbourne Herald; sub-editor and features editor on The Weekly Times, for 11 years Miranda columnist-associate editor of Country Living on The Weekly Times. In 1994, I sourced / edited Miranda’s Taste of Country Life.
| | 1969-1984 | Employed with The Bairnsdale Advertiser (journalism cadetship to A-plus journalist).
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