Em Bailey is an Australian author currently living in Germany with her partner and daughter. Em used to be a new-media designer for a children’s television production house and is now a full-time author. Her first novel, Shift, was selected as a “notable book” in 2012 by the Children’s Book Council of Australia and in the same year it won the Gold Inky for best Australian YA novel which was such an exciting event that Em had to lie down for a week afterwards.