Shelley Davidow is an international author and senior lecturer in the School of Education at the University of the Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia. She is the coordinator of the Graduate Certificate in Steiner Education, the only post-graduate training for Steiner teachers in the country. Originally from South Africa, her recent book titles include Runaways (Ultimo, 2022) Shadow Sisters, Whisperings in the Blood (University of Queensland Press, 2016; 2018), Playing with Words (Palgrave, 2016) andWriting the Radical Memoir (Bloomsbury, 2023).