After reading just_a_girl (reviewed here), I just had to ask author Kirsten Krauth some questions. Kirsten Krauth is a freelance writer and editor, who currently edits the NSW Writer’s Centre magazine, Newswrite. She writes reviews, articles and fiction for various magazines and newspapers, including The Australian and Sydney Morning Herald. Since taking the leap in her early 30s to pursue her dream of writing fiction, Kirsten has acquired a Masters in Creative Writing (University of Sydney), set up a freelance communications business, and continues to write and publish fiction. She lives in Castlemaine, in Victoria, with her husband and two young children and blogs at Wild Colonial Girl. Monique: You’re a freelance writer/editor responsible for Newswrite magazine, which features articles about writing. What prompted the move to write your own novel? Kirsten: I was well on the way to finishing just_a_girl before I took on the Newswrite editing position. I’d been writing on the arts for many years (mainly film) but there was always something niggling at me, as if I was avoiding something important in my life. I knew fiction was something I had …