Nova Weetman’s prose has appeared in various literary magazines including Kill Your Darlings, Island, Tirra Lirra, Wet Ink, Mslexia and Overland. She has written for the children’s television series Pixel Pinkie and Buzz Bumble and wrote the short films Ripples and Mr Wasinski’s Song, for which she received an AWGIE nomination for best short screenplay and the Best Short Film Award from the Melbourne International Film Festival. She has also won the HarperCollins Fellowship and the FAW Award for Best Unpublished Manuscript. Nova lives with her partner, a playwright, and their two children in Melbourne. Frankie and Joely is her second novel for young adults. Her first, The Haunting of Lily Frost, was shortlisted for the 2014 Aurealis Awards for Best Young Adult Novel. www.novaweetman.com.au