Amanda Curtin is a writer, book editor and adjunct lecturer at Edith Cowan University. She has published two novels, Elemental (UWA Press, 2014), shortlisted for the WA Premier’s Book Awards, and The Sinkings (UWA Press, 2008), and a short story collection, Inherited (UWA Press, 2011). Her short fiction has won several awards, including the University of Canberra National Short Story Award, and has been widely published and anthologised. She is currently the fiction editor for Westerly.