Charlotte Nash is the bestselling author of seven contemporary love stories. Her first novel, Ryders Ridge, set in a small-town medical practice, was an Australian top-10 debut for 2013. She is now published around the world, with her latest works Saving You, The Paris Wedding and On A Starlit Ocean. She writes smart, unusual love stories with a lush sense of place and satisfying plot.

She is partial to a good doughnut, gourmet tea, and action movies of the 80s and 90s, and reads across the genre smorgasboard, including romance, new adult, women’s fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and really anything that looks interesting. Her favourite writers are Jilly Cooper, JR Ward, Nahlini Singh, Colleen Hoover, Liane Moriaty, JoJo Moyes, Neal Stephenson, Naomi Novik, Michael Crichton, Ted Chiang, and Kim Stanley Robinson.

Formal bio for writers conferences and panels:

Charlotte Nash is the internationally published author of seven contemporary novels, most recently Saving You and On A Starlit Ocean. She also spans genres as the author of numerous speculative fiction stories, and is a multiple nominee for the Ditmar and Aurealis awards for short fiction. She has degrees in engineering and medicine, and a PhD in creative writing, which examined how the neuroscience of reading can help craft engaging technical fiction. She has taught writing through The University of Queensland, QUT, Queensland Writers Centre, and University of Technology Sydney. She enjoys playing with unconventional intersections in disciplines, and finds romance and science fiction to be two sides of the same reality-shifting gate.