Sophie Hardcastle is an Australian author, artist, screenwriter and scholar. In 2018, she was one of the first two Australians to be awarded a Provost's Scholarship in English literature at the University of Oxford, where she has since continued to work as a research assistant. She is the author of a memoir (Running Like China, 2010) and previous novel (Breathing Under Water, 2016) in Australia, with the release of Below Deck marking her introduction to UK readers.
