Tess Driver lives between the sea and the scrub on the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia, after teaching and working in Australia, England, America and Asia. She has a BA in Asian History and an MA in Creative Writing from Adelaide University. Her work has featured in librettos and in My Love My Life, an Adelaide Festival Opera. She edited Jennifer, written by Jeannie ForsterYoung for the Year of Women's Sufferance and her biography Chord of Silk, on the singer Rita Coonan. She was short listed for the Angus and Robertson Book Prize. As a poet, she has many published collections in America, The Best Poets in Australia and The Best Poets in Britain. The Lake is her first novel.
