Kirsten Tranter is an internationally acclaimed author, editor, and critic based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and co-founder of the Stella Prize for Australian women’s writing. Kirsten is the author of the novels Hold (2016), longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Voss Literary Award, A Common Loss (2012), and The Legacy (2010, named a Kirkus Review debut novel of the year, shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal and the ABIA literary fiction award, and longlisted for the Miles Franklin award, in addition to short fiction and essays. She has mentored authors and taught creative writing and literary studies around the world at the Faber Academy, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Copenhagen, the University of Technology, Sydney, and many workshops.