ABOUT AMELIA
melia Olsen is a mum and author of ‘Dirt and Dust’ and ‘Flower Thief’. She is also a small school teaching principal, PhD student and Mongolian trekker.
Amelia doesn’t have hobbies, but instead launches herself into self-confessed ‘passion-projects’.
She has had numerous photographs and articles published in newspapers and magazines and her ‘home-made’ micro-music-documentaries, co-created with other up-and-coming artists have landed honourable mentions at several international short film festivals for their unique and awe-inspiring content. See About Amelia.
Amelia has a Diploma of Agriculture, a Bachelor of Education, Primary and Middle School (Honors), a Master of Education (Leadership & Management) and is currently studying for a PhD.
She has decided to take leave from her teaching-principal role in 2024 to complete her doctoral study titled ‘Creating cultural change from vulnerable to thriving in regional, rural and remote schools across Queensland’.
Her son Riley, a qualified motor mechanic, works on a cattle station in the Northern Territory and co-authored Dirt and Dust. Amelia’s daughter Jacinta, who co-authored Flower Thief, lives and works in remote locations across the top of Australia.
AMELIA OLSEN QUALIFICATIONS
Diploma of Agriculture
Bachelor of Education, Primary & Middle School (Honours)
Master of Education (Leadership & Management)
PhD Student (2019-2025)
listen to amelia via podcast
#neveralone hosts Joe and Mark invited Amelia to be a guest on their podcast about ‘Suicide-causes and impacts’. The podcast elaborates on some of the topics covered in the book of ‘Dirt and Dust’
Sharing this story has been a difficult balance between telling the kick-arse truth and being gentle enough for the three of us to survive our own individual lives.
Amelia
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Kickin Up Dust Magazine
The Desert Bore Runner
‘The Desert Bore Runner’ is a 3 min 53 sec music video produced in 2022. The videography captures the relentless tough tasks of this Australian outback lifestyle on a 1.76 million acre property, all of which is contrasted by the familiarity and gentleness of the homestead oasis at the end of each day. ‘The Desert Bore Runner’ is an enjoyable story told in song, enhanced by rich vocals and spectacular scenery.
The Great Nomad Expedition
Amelia Olsen took part in The Great Nomad Expedition, where ten women from across the world rode 1200 kilometres on four different animals across Mongolia.
They travelled on camels through the Gobi Desert, yaks through the mountains, on ponies across the wide-open Steppe-grasslands and on reindeer through wildflowers in the forest and bareback through the water. The trek finished in the summer snow in the north of Mongolia ….
BOOK REVIEW – The Great Australian Outdoors
Dirt and Dust
‘It’s not that dad didn’t choose me, or Mum or my sister. He simply didn’t choose life…’ Dirt and Dust is a tumultuous fair dinkum story of circumstances surrounding the suicide of a father narrated by his son Riley and written by his widow Amelia. Readers join the cautious duo as they embark on a 1400km ‘journey’….
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