John Larkin is a multi-award winning author of over 30 books for children, teenagers, and adults. His 2012 novel The Shadow Girl won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and The Pause won the 2015 Queensland Literary Award and was short-listed for the CBCA Book of the Year Award for Older Readers. Both of these novels have been optioned to be made into films. He is the writer-in-residence at Knox Grammar School.