Kris Kneen is the award-winning author of memoir: Affection, Fat Girl Dancing, The Three Burials of Lotty Kneen and fiction: An Uncertain Grace, Steeplechase, Triptych, The Adventures of Holly White and the Incredible Sex Machine, Wintering, as well as the Thomas Shapcott Award-winning poetry collection Eating My Grandmother. They have written and directed broadcast documentaries for SBS and ABC Television. They live in Brisbane, Australia, where they work as a bookseller.