Eva Hornung was born in Bendigo and now lives in rural South Australia on a Morgan horse farm. Hornung is an award-winning writer of literary fiction and criticism. Her novels have been short-listed and won many awards including the Australian/Vogel Literary Award, the Nita May Dobbie Award, the Asher Literary Award, the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year, the ALS Gold Medal, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, the Steel Rudd Literary Award, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the Miles Franklin Award. Hornung’s highly acclaimed Dog Boy was shortlisted for numerous prizes and won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award in 2010. Her most recent novel The Last Garden won the South Australian Premier’s Prize for Literature in 2018.