Thoraiya Dyer is an Australian writer based in Sydney, NSW. Her short fiction has appeared in magazines including Clarkesworld, Apex, Cosmos and Analog, and anthologies such as "Long Hidden," "War Stories," and “The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women.” It is forthcoming in “Defying Doomsday” and “Dimension 6” (for a full list, see thoraiyadyer.com ).Dyer's time-travel pirate novella, "The Company Articles of Edward Teach", won the 2011 Ditmar Award for Best Novella/Novelette and Dyer was awarded Best New Talent. In the same year, short fantasy story "Yowie" won the Aurealis Award in its category. The following year, "Fruit of the Pipal Tree" from Fablecroft anthology "After the Rain" took out the short fantasy category again, and in 2013 a science fiction story about genetically modified metal-eating arthropods, "The Wisdom of Ants," won both an Aurealis Award and a Ditmar. Her collection of four original stories, "Asymmetry," available from Twelfth Planet Press, was called "unsettling, poignant, marvellous" by Nancy Kress. “Wine, Women and Stars,” a short science fiction story originally published in Analog, won the Aurealis Award in 2015.Dyer’s debut novel, “Crossroads of Canopy,” first in the Titan’s Forest trilogy, is coming from Tor Books in January 2017.Her novel-length work is represented by the Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency. She is a member of SFWA. A lapsed veterinarian, her other interests include bushwalking, archery and travel.