Nicola Redhouse is the author of Unlike the Heart: a memoir of brain and mind (UQP). She has had short stories published in MeanjinKill Your DarlingsBest Australian Stories 2014 and 2015, the Big Issue Fiction Special, and performed at the Slow Canoe Live Journal. She teaches the Short Story course in RMIT’s creative writing department sessionally, and has been a co-judge for the Big Issue Fiction Special. She has worked as a book editor for publishers big and small since 2005.