Irma Gold is an award-winning author, editor and podcaster. She is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, The Breaking and Shift, a short fiction collection, Two Steps Forward, and five children’s books, with another two forthcoming. Good Reading magazine has described her as ‘an immense literary talent’. Irma works full-time as a freelance book editor for both publishers and individuals, and for a decade was Convener of Editing at the University of Canberra. She is the founder and co-host of the writing podcast Secrets from the Green Room.