Gregory Day is a writer, poet and musician whose debut novel, The Patron Saint of Eels won the prestigious Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 2006. His CDs include The Black Tower: Songs From The Poetry of WB Yeats, which was hailed by the Yeats Society of Ireland as the finest musical interpretations of Yeats ever made. His second novel, Ron McCoy's Sea of Diamonds was shortlisted for the 2008 NSW Premiers Prize for Fiction. The Grand Hotel is his most recent novel. He lives with his family on the southwest coast of Victoria.