Dorothy Hewett (1923 – 2002) was born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1923. A well-known poet and dramatist, she has published thirteen plays, nine collections of poetry and three novels. The first volume of her autobiography, ‘Wild Card’, won both the Victorian and the Western Australian Premiers’ Prizes for Non-fiction. ‘Peninsula’ won the WA Premier’s Prize for Book of the Year, and the Banjo Award for Poetry.