A powerful, richly layered investigative story for our times, drawing on the personal stories of the author and other women who have been drawn into relationships based on duplicity and false hope.
Stephanie Wood is an award-winning long-form features writer, known
for her rare ability to tell substantial, compelling stories across
a range of subjects. She is a former senior staff writer at Fairfax
Media's Good Weekend magazine (released with The Sydney Morning
Herald and The Age newspapers each Saturday).
Her Good Weekend story recounting the events on the night of
Melbourne's thunderstorm asthma incident received the Jim Oram
Award for Outstanding Feature Writing in the NRMA Kennedy Awards,
while her article on the prescription opioid epidemic won the
Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists Media
Award.
She has investigated corrupt Australians working in the NGO sector
in Cambodia, and explored the radical changes hitting the
inner-city Sydney suburb of Redfern. Her interest in telling
stories about people who struggle on the edges of society has been
reflected in articles about the life of a Kings Cross heroin
addict; the travails of a troubled, mentally ill young man who was
a victim of the NSW foster-care system; and the alarming increase
in elderly abuse.
Stephanie is an accomplished profile writer and has told the
stories of some of Australia's most interesting characters- for
stories, she has visited Richard Di Natale's Victorian farm;
struggled to understand Australian-born genius mathematician Terry
Tao in his Los Angeles lounge-room; shared a couch with Molly
Meldrum; trailed former Premier Mike Baird; and lunched with radio
celebrity Kyle Sandilands.
She is a former editor of The Age Good Food Guide and an
experienced food writer and restaurant reviewer, loves writing
about the history of Australian cities and society, and her
powerful personal essays on subjects including loneliness,
childlessness and her brush with a romantic conman have drawn huge
audiences and touched the lives of many readers.
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