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Moya Costello was born and grew up in Sydney and currently lives on the far noth coast of New South Wales, Australia. Her books are two collections of short fiction, Kites in Jakarta (Sea Cruise Books, Sydney, 1985) and Small Ecstasies (University of Queensland Press, 1994), and a novel The Office as a Boat: a Chronicle (Brandl & Schlesinger, Sydney, 2000); she co-edited (with Janie Conway -Herron and Victor Marsh) Re-Placement, an anthology of writing from universities around Australia (AAWP/Southern Cross University), 2008). Her short prose has been published in major Australian literary anthologies (eg. Transgressions (Penguin), Picador New Writing 3, Contemporary Classics: The Best Australian Short Fiction 1965-1995 (Vintage)), journals (Meanjin, Heat), and on ABC Radio National (Shorts on tape). Her work has been used as an exemplar of practice in Hazel Smith's textbook The Writing Experiment: Strategies for Innovative Creative Writing. She has read/performed her work at many venues, and she has received three writing grants and two fellowships from the Australia Council, Arts SA and Varuna Writers' Centre.