Darren Groth is the author of nine novels including Kindling, Are You Seeing Me?, Exchange of Heart, and his most recent North American work, Boy in the Blue Hammock. He is an Adelaide Festival Award for Literature winner, a two-time finalist in the Queensland Literary Awards, and a past nominee for numerous other prestigious prizes, among them the CBCA Book of the Year, the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, The TextPrize, and the Governor General's Literary Awards in Canada. He has written for newspapers, magazines and literary journals including The Courier-Mail, The SunHerald, Mamamia, The Lifted Brow and Syntax. He will always believe Queensland was robbed by Mark McGaw's match-winning try in Game 1 of the 1987 State of Origin series. He lives in Vancouver, Canada.