Shelby Matheson is an Australian author of middle-grade and YA books. Shelby has a Bachelor of Journalism and Creative and Critical Writing, and a Graduate Diploma in Editing and Publishing. She has been writing full-length novels since she was fourteen and has always known that being an author was her dream job. In her spare time, she enjoys video games, drawing, collecting books (and even reading them), but her greatest passion will always be writing and escaping to the worlds in her head.