Lisa Nicol is an internationally published, award-winning writer and sometimes documentary-maker. Her feature 'Wide Open Sky' about a children’s choir won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Sydney Film Festival. Her charming and funny novel Dr Boogaloo and The Girl Who Lost Her Laughter was a 2018 CBCA Notable, Shenzhen Reading Month, Top Ten Children's Books of the Year 2021 and is currently being adapted for the stage and screen as a musical. Her 2019 middle grade novel Vincent and The Grandest Hotel on Earth has drawn comparisons to Roald Dahl and Kate DiCamillo and been described as a modern classic. Her third novel, The What on Earth Institute of Wonder was shortlisted for Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Award 2022.