Irma Gold is an award-winning author, podcaster and full-time freelance book editor. Her critically acclaimed novels are The Breaking and Shift. Her acclaimed short fiction collection is Two Steps Forward, and her short fiction has been widely published in literary journals, including Meanjin, Island, Westerly, and Award Winning Australian Writing. Irma is also the author of six children’s books, with another forthcoming. For a decade Irma convened the editing degree at the University of Canberra. As an editor she currently works for publishers big and small, and for individual authors preparing their manuscripts for publishers and agents. She is also the founder and co-host of the writing podcast Secrets from the Green Room.