Pauline Yates

Pauline Yates is an award-winning author from Australia. She has a passion for crafting immersive character-driven stories in dark speculative worlds, and her work spans novels, novellas, short fiction, and poetry, often exploring themes of memory, identity, and the uncanny. Her titles include Memories Don’t Lie (BookFest Book Awards winner), Shattered (Aurealis Awards winner), The Connections We Keep (Indies Today Awards winner), and Dream Job. Her short fiction and poetry appear in many quality publications and anthologies, and have won or been shortlisted in their respective categories for awards including Aurealis Awards, BookFest Book Awards, Australasian Shadows Awards, American Legacy Book Awards, Indies Today Awards, and the Australian SF ‘Ditmar’Awards. She dreams of dropping out of society and spending her days writing. Visit her at paulineyates dot com or find her on socials @midnightmuser1