Shivaun Plozza is the award-wining Children's and Young Adult author of Frankie and Tin Heart. Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Frankie was a CBCA Notable Book, was shortlisted for the Inky Awards, Highly Commended in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and won the YA category in the Davitt Awards. 

Shivaun’s short fiction, flash fiction, essays and poetry have appeared in anthologies and journals including Where the Shoreline Used to Be, Speccy-Tacular AFL Stories, Above Water, ELLE Australia, TEXT and The Victorian Writer. 

Shivaun also works as an editor and manuscript assessor.