FRANCESCA DE TORES is a novelist,
poet and academic. She is the author of four
previous novels, published in more than 20
languages. In addition to a collection of poems,
her poetry is widely published in journals and
anthologies. Saltblood is her first historical
novel. She grew up in Lutruwita/Tasmania
and, after fifteen years in England, is now
living in Naarm/Melbourne.
