Amber Wilson is a Tasmanian writer who has worked in journalism and communications for more than a decade, including staff journalist positions with The Advocate, The Mercury, The Melbourne Weekly, The Age and the Scotland Herald. She has also worked as a media advisor and communications officer at a range of government, legal, university and arts bodies, including the Tasmanian Writers’ Centre. Her great passions are documentary filmmaking, slam poetry and writing fiction – preferably absurd, blackly humorous and with plenty of magic realism elements.