Anne Buist AO

Professor Anne Buist is Chair of Women’s Mental Health at the University of Melbourne and the architect of the national screening program for perinatal depression. She began writing at eight, but medicine intervened until 2015 when she wrote Medea’s Curse, the first of five psychological crime novels. The internationally bestselling Two Steps Forward, co-authored with her husband, Graeme Simsion, was optioned to Fox Searchlight/Disney, along with its sequel, Two Steps Onward. She is co-author of the Menzies Mental Health series (The Glass House, The Oasis, The General Hospital) with Graeme.