Katherine Day has been working in the publishing industry for over fifteen years. She was an editor at Penguin Group Australia for eight years before freelancing for Penguin Random House, Allen and Unwin, University of Queensland Press (UQP), Rockpool Publishing, and Thames and Hudson. She is currently a sessional course co-ordinator and lecturer in the School of Culture and Communications at the University of Melbourne as well as studying a Masters of Communications Law. Her areas of interest are the business of publishing and the impact of copyright law on the author/publisher relationship.