Angel of Storms

Trudi Canavan is a bestselling Australian writer of fantasy novels, who has been making up stories about people and places that don’t exist for as long as she can remember. While establishing her writing career, she worked as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer, and is best known for her bestselling fantasy trilogies The Black Magician and Age of the Five. The third book in her The Traitor Spy trilogy, The Traitor Queen, reached #1 on the UK Times Hardback bestseller list in 2011, while The Magician’s Apprentice, the prequel to The Black Magician trilogy, won the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 2009. Subsequently, Canavan has created a new fantasy adventure series called Millennium's Rule, with a completely new setting comprising multiple worlds which characters can cross between. This has also been a success, with Thief's Magic a joint Ditmar winner for Best Novel of 2015 and the first three books reaching bestseller status. Trudi Canavan lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Hannah’s one-woman show My Name is Rachel Corrie was nominated for both the Adelaide Critics’ Circle and Green Room Awards 2010, and won the Adelaide Theatre Guild’s ‘Curtain Call’ Award for Best Female Performance in 2010. In 2009 she was awarded Best Theatre Performance for her role in After the End. Her theatre credits include: Actors at Work (Bell Shakespeare), Goodbye Ruby Tuesday (Melbourne International Comedy Festival), The Red and the Black (Stork Theatre), Been So Long (Adelaide Fringe 2006), Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Australian Shakespeare Company). 2012 saw Hannah starting the year touring Australia in David Williamson’s Let the Sunshine.

Piers Wehner trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, and graduated in 2009. Since then he has been constantly working as an actor, whether on the stage or on the airwaves. He won the BBC Radio Carleton Hobbs Bursary Award in 2009 and has since recorded numerous voice overs, radio plays and audiobooks.