Alice Bishop was born in 1986 and grew up in Christmas Hills, Victoria, Australia. A Constant Hum, her first collection of short fiction, initially began as a response to her experience of the Black Saturday bushfires of 2009. Her broader work has also been shortlisted for Aesop / The Saturday Paper's Horne Prize, received the Melbourne Lord Mayor's Prize for Fiction and has been recognised in the 2018 Penguin Prize for Literary Fiction. She lives in Melbourne.