Leta Keens is a Sydney-based writer who specialises in architecture, design and the arts. She started her career on the architecture and women's pages of a Fleet Street newspaper, and has since worked in Australia, Italy and the United States. She has written for a number of newspapers and magazines, including The Australian newspaper, Qantas inflight magazine and Inside Out. She is the co-author of The Slow Guide to Sydney (Affirm Press, 2007) and the author of Shoes for the Moscow Circus (Murdoch Books, 2010).