Robbie Arnott is a Tasmanian author known for his novels, Flames, The Rain Heron and Limberlost. Arnott's early writing appeared in literary publications Island, Kill Your Darlings and The Lifted Brow. In 2014, Arnott was awarded the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers, and in 2015 won the Tasmanian Young Writer's Fellowship. His first three novels have been shortlisted by numerous literary awards. 

Arnott’s fourth novel, Dusk, is the first to be published under the Picador imprint.