Trent Dalton writes for The Weekend Australian Magazine. He's a two-time winner of a Walkley Award for Excellence in Journalism, a four-time winner of a Kennedy Award for Excellence in NSW Journalism and a four-time winner of the national News Awards Features Journalist of the Year. His debut novel, Boy Swallows Universe (HarperCollins, 2018), is a critically acclaimed national bestseller and winner of the 2019 Indie Book of the Year Award, the MUD Literary Prize and the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing and the People's Choice Award at the 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. At the 2019 Australian Book Industry Awards, the book won a record four awards, including the prestigious Book of the Year Award. Boy Swallows Universe has been published across thirty-four English language and translation territories. His second novel, All Our Shimmering Skies, was published by HarperCollins in October 2020 and is already a national bestseller. Born and raised in Tasmania, Victoria began dancing, singing and acting from a young age. Her passion for filmmaking led her to perform in and film behind the scenes footage for Southern Cross Television’s ‘Kids Live’ in 2013. During her studies at WAAPA, she played the roles of Candi in Rock of Ages, Joanne in Company, and Ursula March in Sweet Charity. Victoria was a finalist in the 2018 Julie Michael awards with her self-devised cabaret I Cain’t Swipe Left – A Tinder Cabaret.
'Trent Dalton is a powerful new voice in fiction.' (on Boy Swallows Universe) -- Washington Book Review 'A work of shimmering originality and energy, with extraordinary characters and a clever, thrilling plot ... unputdownable.' (on All Our Shimmering Skies) -- The Sydney Morning Herald