Mandy Sayer

Mandy Sayer studied tap dancing with Cookie Cooks and Brenda Buffalino and later joined the Bill Evans Dance Company. Her first novel, Mood Indigo, won The Australian/Vogel Award in 1989; her latest, The Cross, was a finalist for the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Crime Novel and has been nominated for the 1997 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She has also been named one of the ten Best Young Australian Novelists by the Sydney Morning Herald. She received an M.A. in creative writing from Indiana University.