Camille Booker is an author, teacher, and PhD candidate. In 2022 she completed the Curtis Brown Creative 6 Month Write Your Novel Course, during which she wrote The Woman In The Waves, her second novel. It was shortlisted for the 2023 Varuna/Affirm Press Mentorship Award, runner up in the CYA Competition, and the Grand Prize winner of the Mystery/Thriller category of the 2022 Book Pipeline Unpublished Competition and the 2023 Hawkeye Manuscript Development Prize. When she’s not writing, you can find Camille scavenging for sea glass on the shoreline of Dharawal Country, where she resides with her family.