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Angie Belcher

writer, profile published in BRAT, Summer 2000

Angie Belcher is a Maketu mother, writer and part-time teacher. She describes herself as a self-confessed adrenaline addict who feels the fear but does it anyway. An ex-skydiver, mad keen scuba diver and cave crawler she says, 'I'll try anything once'. Angie draws on these spine tingling, hair raising, premature aging experiences to enrich her literary career.

She rates her scariest moment as a toss between hanging upside down 3000ft above the earth when her parachute harness got caught in the doorway of a plane and being eyed up as a tasty shish-ka-bob by a marlin while diving in Papua New Guinea.

Many of her children's books including Bungee 70528, The Hole in the Hill and White Knuckle Territory, draw upon New Zealand's adventure pursuits as a main theme. Her husband, well known Adventure Photographer, Andy Belcher, provides powerful images for the text. Angie hopes her books will kindle a love of adventure in the children who read them. She says 'I have a passion for children and for adventure. Writing is just the medium I use to bring them together. I want to show them that life can be really exciting. They just have to switch off TV, go outside and live it.'