Mandy Beaumont taught creative writing and communications at Griffith University for over a decade and holds a PhD and a master’s in creative writing. She is also a regular writer for The Big Issue and a specialist fundraising writer for non-profits.

Her new true crime inspired novel, The Thrill of It, is out now with Hachette Publishing, and her debut novel The Furies was longlisted for the prestigious Stella Prize, shortlisted for the MUD Literary Prize and the Queensland Literary Awards Fiction Book of the Year. Her collection of short stories, Wild, Fearless Chests, won the MOTH International Short Story Prize and was shortlisted for the Richell Prize, the Dorothy Hewett Award and other notable awards.