Nancy is a writer from Adelaide, South Australia who has always loved storytelling in all its forms. From writing plays at primary school and original stories at high school influenced by Abbott and Costello movies and Archie comics, to a career in agriculture telling the scientific stories of Australia. After a life changing personal event inspired a creative journey, the writer in her flourished.

Novels, short stories, tv, movies, video games, songs, and poetry have inspired her to write stories in genres from historical to romance to crime and science fiction to short literary fiction.

She lives in the suburbs with family. When not writing fiction, Nancy works as a research scientist in entomology. 

Nancy writes as Nancy Cunningham and N M Cunningham and has several published stories including her debut historical novel Crossing the Bridge (Available here).