Tom Griffiths is a writer and historian whose work has won prizes in literature, history, science, politics and journalism, including the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History and the Douglas Stewart and Nettie Palmer prizes for non-fiction. His books include Hunters and Collectors, Forests of Ash, Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica and, most recently, Alice's dreaming. He is Emeritus Professor of History at the Australian National University.