Ash­ley Gold­berg is an Aus­tralian writer based in Mel­bourne. His fic­tion has appeared in New Aus­tralian Fic­tion 2021, Mean­jin, Chi­ron Review, The Hon­est Ulster­man and Award Win­ning Aus­tralian Writ­ing among oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. Ash­ley has an MA in Cre­ative Writ­ing from Bath Spa Uni­ver­si­ty and a Grad­u­ate Diplo­ma of Pro­fes­sion­al Writ­ing from Can­ber­ra Uni­ver­si­ty. His work has been short­list­ed, longlist­ed, and anthol­o­gized in numer­ous com­pe­ti­tions world­wide, includ­ing the 2017/18 Gal­ley Beg­gar Press Short Sto­ry Prize and the Com­mon­wealth Short Sto­ry Prize. In 2019, Ash­ley was a fel­low at the Katharine Susan­nah Prichard Writ­ers’ Cen­tre and a final­ist for the Tas­man­ian Writ­ers’ Prize. Abom­i­na­tion was short­list­ed for the 2020 Kill Your Dar­lings Unpub­lished Man­u­script Award.