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.Her fifth novel, The Floodline, is published in 2013. 

Kathryn has taught Creative Writing for the University of Oxford and is the Program Director for Faber Academy at Allen & Unwin. She mentors new writers in the UK and Australia and is the Director of the Australian Writers Mentoring Program. She is currently the Senior Judge for the NSW Premier's Awards.