About

Angelica Jurgens was born on the Mornington Peninsula in 1999 to a photojournalistic father and a mother in optical sales. As a result, Angelica Jurgens grew up in an environment which encouraged both a love for language, and a drive for success.

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Therefore, after completing her secondary schooling in 2016, she spent a summer studying early English literature at Oxford University. During this time, she not only developed a deeper love for writing, but was subsequently exposed to additional academic areas of interest. It was then she decided that she would pursue a career in psychology.

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Thus, after meeting and marrying her husband Rhys an English teacher, she graduated from Swinburne University with a Bachelor of Psychological Sciences in 2024, being the first in her family to have ever attended university. She is now currently undertaking her master’s in child and developmental psychology in an effort to qualify as a child psychologist in the not-too-distant future. 

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It is through these experiences that she has seen the need to incorporate psychology into children's literature. For that reason, Angelica Jurgens aims to write books that engage children, but which also teach them from a scientific standpoint what their emotions are and how to manage them.