Emily Gale writes for childrens and teenagers. Her young adult novels have been published in Australia, the UK, the USA and Germany, and her junior fiction character, Eliza Boom, about a young female inventor, has been translated into ten languages. The Other Side of Summer, for ages 10+ was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, the Aurealis Award, and was a Junior Library Guild title in the USA. Emily's latest YA novel I am Out with Lanterns, was shortlisted for the Ethel Turner Prize and the WA Young Readers' Awards.