AMANDA BRIDGEMAN is a Tin Duck Award winner, an Aurealis and Ditmar Awards finalist and author of several science fiction novels, including the best-selling space opera/military SF Aurora series, alien contact drama The Time of the Stripes, and sci-fi crime thriller The Subjugate.
Born in the seaside town of Geraldton, Western Australia, she moved to Perth to study film & television/creative writing at Murdoch University, earning her a BA in Communication Studies. Perth has been her home ever since.