Lucy Neave completed a Masters of Fine Arts in Writing in the US on a Fulbright scholarship, and has received a Varuna New Writers’ Fellowship, an Australian Society of Authors Mentorship and an Australia Council grant. Her fiction has appeared in Australian and American literary journals, including Overland, Lost Magazine and Antipodes and in Best Australian Stories 2009. Her second novel, Believe in Me was published in 2021 by UQP. It was highly commended for the 2022 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction. She teaches Creative Writing at the Australian National University.