Sylvia Petter

Sylvia Petter was born in Vienna but grew up in Australia, which makes her Austr(al)ian.

She started writing fiction in 1993 and has published three story collections, The Past Present, Back Burning and Mercury Blobs. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of New South Wales. All the Beautiful Liars is her first novel.

After many years living in the Geneva area, where she was a founding member of the Geneva Writers’ Group, and Vienna, she has now settled back in Australia.