ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Chris Womersley’s fiction and reviews have appeared in Granta; The Best Australian Stories 2006, 2010, and 2011; Griffith REVIEW; Meanjin; and The Age. His debut novel, The Low Road, won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction. His second novel, Bereft, won the Australian Book Industry Award for Literary Fiction and the Indie Award for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, The Age fiction prize, and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Visit his website at www.chriswomersley.com.