Professor Anne Buist is chair of Women's Mental Health at the University of Melbourne and the architect of the national screening program for perinatal depression. She began writing at eight but medicine intervened until 2015 when she wrote Medea's Curse, the first of five psychological-crime novels. Anne also co-authored two novels with her husband, Graeme Simsion, of which Two Steps Forward was an international bestseller, optioned to Fox Searchlight / Disney. She is co-author of the bestselling Menzies Mental Health series with Graeme.