Kathryn Heyman is the author of four novels, including The Accomplice, and Captain Starlight's Apprentice, published internationally and in translation. She has won an Arts Council of England Writers Award, the Wingate and the Southern Arts Awards, and been nominated for the Orange Prize, the Scottish Writer of the Year Award, the Edinburgh Fringe Critic's Awards, the Kibble Prize, and the West Australian Premier's Book Awards. She's written several radio plays for BBC radio including adaptations of her own work.

As well as teaching creative writing, Kathryn Heyman speaks at conferences and festivals internationally; previous events include the Cheltenham Writers Festival, Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival, Edinburgh Book Festival, Worlds Writing Festival, British Council/Australian Embassy Readings in Singapore and most Australian festivals. Kathryn Heyman mentors new writers in the UK and Australia.