Celeste Walters has been a teacher, a children's theatre actor/manager, a lecturer in Drama and Language and Literature at Deakin University and writer-in-residence at tertiary institutions as well as in primary and secondary schools. Celeste has published texts on drama and the writing of eulogies. Her novels for younger readers include Treading the Boards and of her books of verse, Who's Who at the Zoo , illustrated by Patricia Mullins, is a special favourite. Celeste has also written several novels for young adults, including The Last Race , the award-winning The Killing of Mud-Eye , The Glass Mountain and Deception .