Nick Tapper is Associate Publisher at Giramondo, an independent literary publisher of award-winning fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Giramondo’s authors include Alexis Wright, Gerald Murnane, Jessica Au, Grace Yee, Hasib Hourani, Antigone Kefala, Brian Castro and Judith Beveridge. Giramondo is also the publisher of the international literary magazine HEAT. Nick worked with Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions to launch The Novel Prize, of which the inaugural winner was Jessica Au’s Cold Enough for Snow, now published in over twenty territories worldwide.