Lauren Aimee Curtis was born in Sydney. She is the author of Strangers at the Port (2023), which was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, and Dolores (2019), which was shortlisted for the Glenda Adams Award as well as the Readings Prize. Her novels have been chosen as Books of the Year in Granta, Sydney Morning Herald, The Telegraph, and the New Statesman. In 2023, she was selected as one of Granta‘s ‘Best Young British Novelists’.