Esme is a metallurgist and writer of speculative and contemporary fiction. She was selected to participate in the 2019 KSP 1st Edition Retreat, the 2020 Four Centres Emerging Writers Program, a 2020 KSP Fellowship and the 2021 ASA Award Mentorship Program for Writers and Illustrators. Her work has appeared in the Underground Writers Zine, Spillwords, Short Édition, Night Parrot Press’s Three Can Keep a Secret anthology and KSP’s Deceased Estates and Duet anthologies. Esme was shortlisted for the 2023 Love to Read Local Flashscapes! Competition and the 2023 and 2024 KSP Spooky Story Competitions. Her thriller manuscript, Parallel, was shortlisted for the 2024 ASA/HQ Fiction Prize. When she isn’t reading and writing, Esme looks after her two children in Perth, Western Australia.