Helen Garner is widely recognised as one of Australia's greatest writers. She is the winner of the 2006 inaugural Melbourne Prize for Literature, the 2016 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Non-fiction, the 2019 Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature and the 2023 Australian Society of Authors Medal. Her books include This House of Grief , Monkey Grip , The Children's Bach and How To End A Story: Collected Diaries . Chloe Hooper is an Australian author acclaimed for her compelling narratives in both fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of A Child's Book of True Crime , shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Literature, The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island , The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire and Bedtime Story . Sarah Krasnostein is the best-selling author of The Trauma Cleaner , The Believer , Not Waving, Drowning , and On Peter Carey . She has won the Victorian Prize for Literature and other major nonfiction awards and been shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize. She holds a doctorate in criminal law and is admitted to practice law in New York and Victoria.