Amy Espeseth was born in rural Wisconsin in 1974 and immigrated to Australia in 1998.  She holds a MA in creative writing from the University of Melbourne where she is a sessional tutor and PhD student.  Her fiction has appeared in various journals, and she received the Felix Meyer Award for Literature in 2007.  Her novel ‘Sufficient Grace’ is short-listed for the 2009 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript.