Specialising in dark fantasy and horror, Angela Slatter is the author of the Aurealis Award-winning "The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales", the World Fantasy Award finalist "Sourdough and Other Stories", Aurealis finalist "Midnight and Moonshine" (with Lisa L. Hannett), among others. She is the first Australian to win a British Fantasy Award, holds an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing, is a graduate of Clarion South and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, and was an inaugural Queensland Writers Fellow.