Patti Miller is the author of ten books, both fiction and nonfiction, including Australia’s best-selling life writing texts, Writing Your Life, The Memoir Book and Writing True Stories. Her work is critically acclaimed across all genres. She is published regularly in literary journals and national newspapers and magazines including the SMH, The Guardian, The Age and The Australian. She has been a judge for the NSW Premier’s Prize and the State Library’s Russell Prize for Humour Writing. Patti is considered Australia’s most successful memoir teacher and has taught life writing around the country for 35 years – she also teaches in Paris and London each year. Nearly 70 of her former students have been commercially published.