Angela Meyer is an Australian author and editor. Her debut novel, A Superior Spectre (Ventura Press), was shortlisted for an Aurealis Award, the MUD Literary Prize, an Australian Book Industry Award, the Readings Prize for New Australian Writing and a Saltire Literary Society Award (Scotland). She is also the author of a novella, Joan Smokes, which won the inaugural Mslexia Novella Award (UK), and a book of flash fiction, Captives. Her work has been widely published in magazines, journals and newspapers, including Island, The Big Issue, The Australian, The Lifted Brow, Lit Hub and Kill Your Darlings. She has worked in bookstores, as a book reviewer, in a whisky bar, and as a publisher. She now works as a freelance editor and consultant.