Kathryn Heyman is the author of six novels including her latest, Storm and Grace. She has received many awards for her work, including the Arts Council of England Writer’s Award, the Wingate and the Southern Arts Award and been nominated for awards in Australia and the UK including the Orange Prize, the Scottish Writer of the Year Award, the Kibble Prize, the Edinburgh Critic’s Awards and the West Australian Premier’s Awards. She has taught writing for the University of Oxford and many others and is currently the director of the Australian Writers Mentoring Program and Fiction Program Director of Faber Writing Academy.