Angela Slatter is the award-winning author of The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales, Sourdough and Other Stories,The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, Black-Winged Angels and the novella Of Sorrow and Such. She has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing, and was the Katharine Susannah Prichard Established Writer-in-Residence this year. Her debut novel Vigil will be released by Jo Fletcher Books in 2016, and the sequel, Corpselight, in 2017.