Michael Heyward

As well as being an author and editor, Michael Heyward is the managing director and publisher for Text Publishing, a multi-award-winning independent publishing company in Melbourne.

Text publishes Australian and international authors, including Barack Obama, Kate Grenville, Helen Garner, Tim Flannery, Yann Martel, Peter Temple, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Lloyd Jones, Ta-Nehisi Coates, J.M. Coetzee, Graeme Simsion, Elena Ferrante, Gail Jones, Niccolò Ammaniti, Magda Szubanski, John McPhee, Herman Koch, and Gerald Murnane.