About the Author

Fiona Capp was born in Melbourne in 1963. She trained as a journalist, has a PhD in English and has worked as a freelance writer and university tutor in English, journalism and novel writing at the University of Melbourne, La Trobe University and RMIT. Her first book, Writers Defiled was shortlisted for the FAW Australian Unity Literature Award in 1993. Night Surfing, her first novel, was shortlisted for the 1997 Nita B. Kibble Awards and the Toulon Bookfair Awards. Her second novel, Last of the Sane Days, was shortlisted for the Age Fiction Book of the Year and was nominated in Australia for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Both novels have been published in France. Capp lives in Brunswick, Melbourne, with her partner and son.