February: Graeme Simsion, Balli Kaur Jaswal, Kate Richards and Peter Dawncy

Graeme Simsion is a Melbourne-based novelist and screenwriter. The Rosie Project and The Rosie Effect have combined global sales approaching five million copies.

Graeme is also the author of the international bestsellers The Best of Adam Sharp and – co-written with his wife, Anne Buist – Two Steps Forward. His screenplay for The Rosie Project is in development with Sony Pictures, The Best of Adam Sharp is in development with Toni Collette’s Vocab Films, and the rights to Two Steps Forward have been optioned by Fox Searchlight and Ellen DeGeneres.

Graeme’s latest book is the third and final Rosie novel, The Rosie Result.

Kate Richards is a writer of fiction, narrative nonfiction and poetry. She has a medical degree with honours and works part-time in medical research in Melbourne. Kate is the author of the critically acclaimed Madness: a memoir and the Penguin Special Is there no place for me?

Peter Dawncy lives in the Dandenong Ranges east of Melbourne. He has a Bachelor of Arts with majors in English and Philosophy from Monash University; he received first-class Honours in English in 2011 and is currently completing his Creative Writing PhD under scholarship at Monash.

Peter won the 2010 Monash Prize for Poetry and has been published in five editions of Voiceworks, three editions of Southerly, three editions of The Verge Anthology, and has also had writing appear in Mascara Literary Review, LINQ, Islet, Lot’s Wife, Studio and Positive Words. Peter is a fiction editor at Voiceworks and an editor of The 2013 Verge Anthology.