Stephanie Bishop is a widely acclaimed novelist and critic. She is the recipient of multiple prizes, including The Readings Prize for New Australian Writing, the Literary Fiction Book of the Year Award, the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards (shortlisted), the Christina Stead Prize for fiction (shortlisted) and the Stella Prize (longlisted). She is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

Her second novel, The Other Side of the World was named Literary Fiction Book of the Year in the Australian Book Industry Awards 2016 and winner of The Readings Prize for New Australian Writing 2015. It was also shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, the Indie Book Awards and the NSW Premier's Literary Awards as well as being longlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize.


Her next novel, Man Out of Time was also longlisted for the Stella Prize, and shortlisted for the Christina Stead Prize for fiction.