Catriona McKeown

is an established, award-winning author. She has three full-length contemporary
Young Adult novels published: The Boy in
the Hoodie
(winner of Caleb’s Unpublished Manuscript Award 2017), Memphis Grace (Winner of the Australian
Family Therapist Award 2020), and Good
Luck and Other Lies (releasing 2025). Catriona is an Australian High School
teacher, working primarily with students with additional needs. She also helps
students develop their entrepreneurial skills to create solutions to today’s
problems. She lives on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.