 Emily Maguire has served as Writer in Residence at the Djerassi Artists Program in Northern California (2009), as an Asialink Literature Resident in Vietnam (2008) and as a Tasmanian Writers' Centre resident in Hobart (2006).She has an MA in literature and has worked as a mentor to young and emerging writers.Maguire's first novel, "Taming the Beast" (2004), was nominated for the Dylan Thomas Prize and received a Special Commendation in the Kathleen Mitchell Awards.