Kirsty Eagar was raised on a farm near Rockhampton. After studying economics at the University of Queensland, she worked for central banks in Sydney and London before changing direction. Her Young Adult novels have won and been shortlisted for numerous literary awards and her latest, Summer Skin, is a modern romance set in the hook-up culture of campus life, described by Clementine Ford as ‘the feminist love story girls have been waiting for’. She lives on Sydney’s northern beaches with her family.