Steven Amsterdam
Steven Amsterdam is the author of Things We Didn’t See Coming (Winner, The Age Book of the Year), What the Family Needed (shortlist, Encore Prize; longlist, IMPAC International Literary Award), and most recently, The Easy Way Out (shortlist, ALS Gold Medal, Prime Minister’s Literary Award; longlist, Miles Franklin Literary Award). His short fiction and non-fiction has appeared in The Age, Five Chapters, The Guardian, Heat, The Lifted Brow, Meanjin, Overland, Salon, and Virginia Quarterly Review. He is also a palliative care nurse.