P A Swanborough started writing in 2019, winning Best Regional Writer/ runner-up Best Fiction, GMW Emerging Writers' Competition, Writers Victoria the same year, and completing an Associate Degree in Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT in 2022. She has short stories published in Australia and the USA. Pam is interested in almost everything, and her writing explores imbalance, the fragility of life and environment, age and memory, and fluid identity. She works in literary/speculative fiction and lyric non-fiction. Melbourne-born but spending half her life in the UK, Pam now lives in rural Victoria and is currently working on a second major writing project while renovating a crumbling ruin with which she feels a natural affinity. Her survival skills are making string and beer. 'Red Gifts in the Garden of Stones' (2024) is her first published novel.