Katerina Cosgrove has been a bookshop owner and university tutor. She is the author of The Glass Heart, Bone Ash Sky and the prize-winning novellas Intimate Distance and Zorba the Buddha. Katerina has written for Al-Jazeera, The Independent, Sunday Life, SBS Voices, Island, Daily Life and The Big Issue and has been co-judging the Nib Award for Literature since 2014. She also writes obituaries at Live Life Twice.