Mirandi Riwoe is the author of Stone Sky Gold Mountain, which won the Queensland Literary Award for Fiction and the inaugural ARA Historical Novel Prize, was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. Her novella The Fish Girl was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Mirandi also writes as M.J. Tjia and has written three crime novels set in 1860s London. Her work has appeared in Best Australian Stories, Meanjin, Review of Australian Fiction, Griffith Review and Best Summer Stories. Mirandi has a PhD in Creative Writing and Literary Studies (QUT).