Kirsty Murray is an award-winning author of books for children and teenagers. Her many publications include Zarconi's Magic Flying Fish, Market Blues, and the historical fiction quartet Children of the Wind. In 2011 her novel India Dark won the Young People's History Award section in the NSW Premier's History Awards. Kirsty is a regular speaker at schools and literary festivals, and has been a Creative Fellow of the State Library of Victoria and an Asialink Literature Resident at the University of Madras in South India. She lives in Melbourne.