Gabrielle Carey is a writer and author of ten books, including Moving Among Strangers- Randolph Stow and my family (2013), which jointly won the 2014 Prime Minister's Award for Non-Fiction and was shortlisted for the National Biography Award, and Falling Out of Love with Ivan Southall (2018). She teaches creative non-fiction at the University of Technology Sydney. In 2020 Carey was recently shortlisted for the Hazel Rowley Biography Award for her work on Elizabeth von Arnim.