Holly Kench is a writer and a feminist, with a classics degree and a fear of spiders. She lives in Tasmania, Australia, where a lack of sun provides ample opportunity for hiding indoors and writing off-kilter stories. Holly writes about her life as a stuffed olive on her blog Confessions of a Stuffed Olive (www.stuffedolive.com.au) and manages the website Visibility Fiction (www.visibilityfiction.com), promoting and publishing inclusive young adult fiction.