Francesca Haig is the author of the post-apocalyptic Fire Sermon trilogy (The Fire Sermon; The Map of Bones; and The Forever Ship), translated into more than 20 languages. Her most recent novel, The Cookbook of Common Prayer, was published in 2021.
Francesca gained her PhD from the University of Melbourne, and worked as an academic before becoming a full-time writer. Her poetry has been widely published. She grew up in lutruwita/ Tasmania, and after fifteen years in England, now lives in naarm/Melbourne,