Angela Slatter is the author of the Verity Fassbinder urban fantasy series (Vigil, Corpselight and Restoration, published by Jo Fletcher Books) as well as eight short story collections, including The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings and A Feast of Sorrows: Stories. She has a PhD in Creative Writing and was an inaugural Queensland Writers Fellow.  She’s won a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, a Ditmar Award, an Australian Shadows Award and six Aurealis Awards; her debut novel was nominated for the Dublin Literary Award. Her work has been adapted for the screen, and translated into French, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, and Bulgarian. Victoria Madden of Sweet Potato Films (The Kettering Incident) has optioned her novelette “Finnegan’s Field”.