Liana Joy Christensen writes and publishes in several genres. She is the author of Deadly Beautiful – Vanishing Killers of the Animal Kingdom. Her creative non-fiction, short stories and poetry appear in literary journals and anthologies, both here and internationally. She has won the Spilt Ink Prize for Creative non-fiction, a Rockingham Short Fiction Award, the PCWC Patron’s Prize for poetry, as well as being shortlisted for the Newcastle Poetry Prize in 2014.