Julienne van Loon has written three novels: Road Story (2005), which won the Australian/Vogel’s Award, Beneath the Bloodwood Tree (2008) and Harmless (2013). Her novella ‘Instructions for a Steep Decline’ won the Griffith Review Novella Project VII and is published in Griffith Review 66. Her debut non-fiction The Thinking Woman (2019) has been hailed as “a revelation” (Australian Book Review), “surprising and resonant” (Sydney Morning Herald) and “an invitation to a thoughtful life” (Feminist Writers’ Festival). She lives in Melbourne, where she is an Associate Professor with the Writing and Publishing program at RMIT.