Terry Mulhern is a Melbourne-based writer. When city life threatens to overwhelm him, he escapes deep into the forests of northwest Tasmania to contemplate the infinite beauty of fungi and surreptitiously photograph the nocturnal wildlife. He has twice won the Van Diemen History Prize (2019 & 2021) for nonfiction and is short stories set in 19th century Van Diemen's Land have been finalists in competitions in Australia, USA and UK and are available in print an online.