Jill Dawson: Jill Dawson was born in 1962 in Durham and grew up in Yorkshire. She is an award-winning poet, short-story writer and author of How Do I Look?, co-editor of Wild Ways, and editor of The Virago Book of Wicked Verse and The Virago Book of Love Letters. Her first novel, Trick of the Light, was published in 1996. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Sheffield Hallam University, and lives in London with her son., Margo Daly: Margo Daly is lives in Australia. She is co-author of the Rough Guide to Australia and contributor to the Rough Guide to France and Women Travel. She has recently taught at Varuna, a writer's centre in the Blue Mountains, Australia. She is currently completing a novel set in England, Australia and France.