Yvonne Fein lives in Melbourne and has published short fiction and non-fiction, as well as having two plays performed. She has edited the Melbourne Chronicle and Generation, as well as two volumes of memoirs by Holocaust survivors, one of which won the National Book Council's inaugural Banjo Award for Biography. She has taught in schools and been a writer-in-residence. The second April Taub novel, Under the Influence, is to be published in 2002 and a third is underway.