A’Mhara McKey is the quintessential book lover – a librarian, writer, and voracious reader of every kind of fiction. She grew up in the Northern Territory, Australia, where she rubbed shoulders with a man-eating crocodile and survived a Category 4 cyclone. She still lives in the Top End and is raising her three children with the same deep love of books and the bush.

Her unpublished manuscripts have been shortlisted for The Banjo Prize, and the ASA/HQ Fiction Prize, and have secured her two ArtsNT Varuna Fellowships. Her short stories have won two NT Literary Awards and a Lane Cove Literary Award, and have been shortlisted for several others. She is an Australian Writer’s Centre alumnus, and a founding member of the ALL WRiTE CLUB.