Amy BarkerAmy Barker holds degrees in English Literature and Creative Writing. Her debut novel Omega Park won the 2008 Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Best Emerging Author, was shortlisted for the 2010 FAW (Fellowship of Australian Writers) Christina Sead Award for fiction and was Winner of the 2012 IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Ena Noël Award. Paradise Earth is Amy's second novel. It won the 2013 DJ 'Dinny' O'Hearn Memorial Fellowship and for six months she was writer in residence at the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, where she mentored undergraduate and postgraduate creative writing students. Amy has undertaken residencies at Varuna The National Writers' House, the Tyrone Guthrie Centre for professional artists in Ireland, and most recently, she had a three-month writing stint in a cell at Old Melbourne Gaol, which like Port Arthur, is a Pentonville model prison. Amy lives in Melbourne. Read More Read Less