Nina Kenwood is the author of the YA novels It Sounded Better in My Head and Unnecessary Drama. It Sounded Better in My Head won the Text Prize and was a finalist for the American Library Association’s William C Morris Award, as well as being shortlisted for numerous Australian literary awards, published in six languages, and optioned for film. Nina's second novel Unnecessary Drama was released in 2022, and has been shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards. Nina lives in Melbourne.