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June A Valladares was born in Mumbai in 1948. she started her career as a journalist, but soon switched to a relatively short but exciting career in advertising. In the seventies and eighties, June worked at Hindustan Thompson Associates (HTA), now J Walter Thompson (JWT), and later at Lintas India Limited, now Lowe – two of the largest ad agencies. She was also creative director at HTA, Chennai, and has worked at JWT, London. During 1987-88, she trained copywriters for Sajid Peerbhoy of Speer Communications. Her first book the Craft of Copywriting, published in 2000 by Response Books, was a bestseller. In 1984 June traveled to Australia for six months, where she wrote articles for the Australian Reader’s Digest and B&T. Learning something of poetry from the Young Street Poets in Sydney, she also wrote poetry and short fiction and was encouraged by Dom Moraes and Nissim Ezekiel, who published her poetry in the Indian PEN. Her poems are regularly aired on Australian Broadcasting Corporation, London. She conceptualized and ran for seven years India’s first journal of creative faith, the Mustard Seed – started in 1989, it is still going strong. In 2002, she inaugurated the Poustinia Meditation Centre at Witsend, her home in Pune, India. June a Valladares feels truly blessed in her present roles as creative writer and author, homemaker and care giver, artist and nature lover, mentor and prayer partner, cook and couch potato, taxpayer and member of a co-operative society.