Gillian O’Shaughnessy is a writer and journalist from Walyalup, Fremantle. She broadcast the Afternoon Show with ABC Local Radio in Perth for a decade and was a journalist and presenter with ABC News for 15 years. Her short stories have been widely anthologised and featured in the international Best Small Fictions in 2023 and 2024. She’s won the London Independent Story Prize, the UK Welkin Prize, and the US Fractured Literature Anthology Prize, among others. She is the founder of the notoriously kind Facebook group, Reading Between the Wines and a former curator of Writers Weekend for Perth Festival.

Photo credit Wendy O’Shaughnessy