Mireille Juchau is an award-winning Australian writer, and The World Without Us is her third novel. Her first, Machines for Feeling, was shortlisted for The Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 1999, and the second, Burning In, was published in 2007. In 2008, it was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award for fiction, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, The Age Book of the Year Award, and the Nita B Kibble Award. She lives in Sydney.