Deborah Robertson was born in Bridgetown, Western Australia, in 1959. Her first book, Proudflesh, won the Steele Rudd Award for the best Australian short story collection in 1998. She currently teaches creative writing at Murdoch University and lives in the port of Fremantle, Western Australia.
CARELESS was longlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize, while in Australia it won the Kibble Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, the New South Wales Premier's Christina Stead Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (South East Asia and South Pacific region).
