Brooke Robinson is a playwright and novelist from Western Sydney. Her professionally produced plays include Bad Machine (Campbelltown Arts Centre, 2022) and Good Cook. Friendly. Clean (Griffin Theatre, 2018), both published by Currency Press. Her debut novel, The Interpreter, was published in 2023 with Harvill Secker/Penguin Random House in Australia, the UK and Commonwealth, and HarperCollins in the USA. It is translated into German, Italian, Czech and Russian and is in development as a TV series in Hollywood. Penguin Random House publish her second novel, The Negotiator, in June 2024. In 2020 Brooke won Australia’s Lysicrates prize for drama. In 2022 she was writer in residence at City of Melbourne libraries, and in 2023 was a Yaddo fellow in NY, USA.