Alison Goodman is the author of Eon and Eona, a New York Times Bestselling fantasy duology, which has sold in 18 countries and been translated into 11 languages. Eon (aka The Two Pearls of Wisdom) won the 2008 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel. It was also listed as an American Library Association Best Young Adult Book (2010), a James Tiptree Jr. Honour book, and a CBCA Notable Book.

Alison’s first novel, Singing the Dogstar Blues, won the 1998 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Novel, and was also listed as an American Library Association Best Book (2004) and CBCA Notable Book. Her second novel, a crime thriller titled Killing the Rabbit, was published in the USA and shortlisted for the 2007 Davitt Award. It has just been re-released under a new title – A New Kind of Death – in a print edition in Australia and will be available as an e-book worldwide in late November 2012.

Alison was a D.J. O’Hearn Memorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne and holds a Master of Arts. She lives bayside with her husband and their Machiavellian Jack Russell Terrier, and is currently working on a new series, Lady Helen – a trilogy of historical supernatural adventures set in the Regency. The first book – The Dark Days Club – was released in January 2016.