Helen Garner writes novels, stories, screenplays and works of non-fiction. She is the winner of the Melbourne Prize for Literature and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Non-fiction, and received the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature and the Australian Society of Authors Medal. Her books include Monkey Grip, The Children’s Bach, The First Stone, Joe Cinque’s Consolation, The Spare Room, This House of Grief, The Season and How to End a Story: Collected Diaries. She co-authored The Mushroom Tapes with Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein.