Cally Black is a reader, traveller, motorbike rider and writer. She is constantly seeking ways to create stories that speak to readers. Cally has spent over 20 years living in Melbourne, but now travels around the country in her bus. She teaches online at Victoria TAFE. Since winning the Ampersand Prize with In the Dark Spaces, she's written a novel for younger children called How to Bee under the name Bren MacDibble. She uses a pseudonym to keep her two readerships separate.