Ewa Ramsey is an emerging writer whose work has appeared in The Guardian, Broadsheet, the Newcastle Herald, PC & Tech Authority and Atomic magazine. She has previously worked for the Newcastle Writers Festival and the National Young Writers Festival as well as stints in magazine publishing, architecture, hospitality and wedding floristry. The Morbids is her first novel and was shortlisted for the 2020 ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year and the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year, and longlisted for the Indie Book Awards Debut Fiction Book of the Year. She grew up in Sydney but now lives in Newcastle with her husband and two boys.