Ryan O’Neill is the author of The Weight of a Human Heart and Their Brilliant Careers. He was born in Glasgow in 1975 and has lived in Africa, Europe and Asia before settling in Newcastle, Australia, with his wife and two daughters.His fiction has appeared in Seizure, The Best Australian Stories, The Sleepers Almanac, Meanjin, New Australian Stories, Wet Ink, Etchings and Westerly. He was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin and won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction in 2017. He teaches at the University of Newcastle.