Decline in Prophets (45 page)

Sulari set out to study astrophysics, ended up graduating in law, and later abandoned her legal career to write books instead of contracts. When the mood takes her, she paints,
although she maintains that she does so only well enough to know that she should write. She grows French Black Truffles on her farm in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains of NSW, which she shares
with her young family and several animals (the farm not the truffles). Sulari was shortlisted for Best First Book in South East Asia and Pacific for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize 2011. She
was recently offered a Varuna Fellowship. She was commended in the Fellowship of Australian Writers’ 2008 Jim Hamilton Award, long-listed for the Hachette/Queensland Writers’ Centre
Australian Manuscript Development Program for fiction writers’ and short-listed for the 2008 New Holland Publishers and NSW Writers’ Centre Genre Fiction Award. Sulari is the author of
A Few Right Thinking Men
(the first book in the Rowland Sinclair Series). She also writes Young Adult fiction.
Chasing Odysseus
, the first book in the HERO trilogy, was released in
early 2011.