Foal's Bread

Gillian Mears was born on July 21, 1964 and grew up in Grafton, New South Wales, Australia. She studied archeology at the University of Sydney before receiving a degree in communications from the University of Technology, Sydney. Her novels include The Mint Lawn, which won the Australian/Vogel Literary Award; The Grass Sister, which won a Commonwealth Prize; and Foal's Bread, which won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction, the Victorian Premier's Award for Fiction, the Colin Roderick Award, and the ALS Gold Medal. Her short stories include Ride a Cock Horse, Fineflour, Collected Stories, and A Map of the Gardens, which won the Steele Rudd Award. She also wrote a children's book entitled The Cat with the Coloured Tail and a memoir entitled Alive in Ant and Bee. She died on May 16, 2016 at the age of 51.

030