Anna Spargo-Ryan is an award-winning Melbourne writer. Her new memoir, A KIND OF MAGIC, is about anxiety, learning to be a person, a bit of self-forgiveness, love, death-defying panic and generally trying to have a happy life. Her novels are THE GULF and THE PAPER HOUSE. She is the Nonfiction Editor at Island Magazine. Anna won the 2016 Horne Prize for her essay "The Suicide Gene". You can find her other work in Best Australian Essays, Meanjin, The Guardian, The Big Issue, and many other places.