Delia Falconer is the author of two novels, The Service of Clouds (Picador, 1997) and The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers (Picador, 2005), and Sydney (NewSouth, 2010), a cultural history and memoir of her hometown. Her short stories and essays have been anthologised widely, including in the PEN Macquarie Anthology of Australian Literature. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney.