Bernard Cohen is the award-winning author of four previous novels and a children's picture book. He won the Australian/Vogel Literary Award for THE BLINDMAN'S HAT and an Arts Council of England Writer's Award for THE ANTI-BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT F. MENZIES. He has been listed as a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist three times and was a University of Technology Sydney Alumnus of the Year. He is founder and director of The Writing Workshop and holds a Doctorate of Creative Arts from UTS. Bernard lives in Sydney.