Barbara Truelove is the name given to a moderately sentient Homo sapien known to wander land masses in Oceania and occasionally further afield. Unlike a majority of lifeforms on planet Earth, she has an internal skeletal structure, a warm-blooded circulatory system, and more than four meters of intestinal tract, home to various bacteria. Powered by complex carbons and caffeine, Barbara Truelove has existed in varying forms since the early 1990s. During that time, she's worked as a television production assistant, a hotel receptionist, and a kindergarten teacher. She's the author of Of Monsters and Mainframes (Bindery, 2025) and the interactive novel Blood Moon (Hosted Games, 2023). Currently, Barbara lives in Australia on the land of the Gandangara people and spends most of her time wandering the streets in search of free Wi-Fi. She's been writing since she was nine years old and believes it's probably too late to break the habit now. Barbara Truelove is represented by Allegra Martschenko at BookEnds Literary Agency. For more information on Barbara Truelove and her work, visit her website: https: //barbaratruelove.com/.