Keren Heenan is a Melbourne writer and Arts teacher. She has won a number of Australian short story awards, including the Alan Marshall, Southern Cross, and Hal Porter awards. She placed 2nd in the Fish prize and was a winner of the Griffith Review Novella Project 2019. She has been published in Australian journals and anthologies, including Island, Overland, Griffith Review, and Award Winning Australian Writing, and also in anthologies and online in the US, UK and Ireland.