Nikki Mottram

Nikki Mottram brings to her crime fiction a background of working in child protection. She has a psychology degree from the University of Queensland and has worked in London and Australia in positions protecting and promoting the welfare of children at risk of harm. She has been published in the Boroondara Literary Awards Anthology and short-listed for the Fish International Short Story Prize and the Hal Porter Short Story Prize. In 2018, she was the recipient of a Katherine Susannah Pritchard fellowship. She grew up and resides in Toowoomba, and brings her understanding of insular rural communities, their customs and their secrets, to her work.