Kylie Needham is an award-winning screenwriter. She holds a Bachelor of Arts/Communications (Theatre/Media) from Charles Sturt University and both a Master of Arts (English Literature) and a Master of Creative Writing from Macquarie University. Kylie has won two AWGIE (Australian Writers' Guild) Awards for television scriptwriting. Her work has been published in the Better Read Than Dead Writing Anthology 2019, The Quarry Journal and the exhibition catalogue 2014 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art- Dark Heart. She lives in Robertson in the Southern Highlands of NSW with her husband, artist Ben Quilty, and their two children. This is her first novel.