Sam Carmody is a writer and award-winning musician from Geraldton. He is a recipient of the Mary Grant Bruce Award as part of the Fellowship of Australian Writers National Literary Awards, and his short fiction and non-fiction have been published widely. He won a 2015 Griffith Review Varuna Fellowship to complete his first novel, The Windy Season (Allen & Unwin, 2016), which was shortlisted for the 2014 Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award and longlisted for the 2016 Indie Book Awards. He is currently living in Darwin and teaches creative writing at the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Higher Education.