Mandy Beaumont is an award-winning writer, researcher and book reviewer. Mandy's collection of short stories, Wild, Fearless Chests, was shortlisted for the Richell Prize and the Dorothy Hewett Award, and a story from the collection won the MOTH International Short Story Award. She teaches at Griffith University in Creative Writing and is also a researcher at RMIT where she is engaging, through fiction, with the work of Simone de Beauvoir. Mandy's debut novel, The Furies, will be published by Hachette in 2022. For more information go to www.mandybeaumont.com