Angela Savage is an Australian author and winner of the Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award in 2004 for Thai Died. Her first novel, based on this manuscript, was shortlisted for the 2007 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction. Her second novel was shortlisted for the 2011 Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction. In 2011 she won the Scarlet Stiletto prize for Australian women's short crime fiction, awarded by Sisters in Crime Australia, for 'The Teardrop Tattoos'. Her third novel was shortlisted for the 2014 Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction, and the Sisters in Crime Australia 14th Davitt Awards for Australian Crime Writing by Women. She contributed an essay to the collection, If I Tell You...I'll Have To Kill You: Australia's leading crime writers reveal their secrets. Christos Tsiolkas dedicated his fifth novel, Barracuda, to Angela.