Sheryl-Lee Kerr is an award-winning journalist formerly of The Adelaide Advertiser newspaper, in South Australia.

Born in Christchurch, New Zealand, Sheryl-Lee has lived in Australia since she was nine. She was a copy girl at Brisbane’s now defunct Daily Sun - which would provide enormously funny fodder in later years, and did her journalism cadetship at Queensland’s Courier-Mail newspaper.

Sheryl-Lee has worked in the Melbourne and Sydney bureaus for News Ltd, covering everything from courts and hard news to features. But it was a funny story about 6000 wayward homing pigeons that went missing on a flight in 1993 that prompted an Adelaide editor to offer her a job in the city of wine, churches and frogcakes. She came to appreciate the pigeons in Adelaide from that moment on.

In January 2001, the boss retired her That’s Life column, which was originally called Such Is Life - a name change which came about when an absent-minded sub-editor typed the wrong title one day!

Sheryl-Lee now works in Perth at The Sunday Times where she continues to extoll the virtues of breakthrough research into non-fattening chocolate. As she so often says: “Hey, it could happen...”