Rachel Robertson is a West Australian writer and senior lecturer in writing at Curtin University. She was the joint winner (with Mark Tredinnick) of the 2008 Calibre Essay Prize. Rachel’s essays and short fiction have been published in many anthologies and journals. She is the author of Reaching One Thousand: A story of love, motherhood and autism (2012, 2018) and co-editor of Purple Prose (2015) and Dangerous Ideas About Mothers (2018).