Gabrielle (Gay) Walsh has written works as diverse as The Long and Short of It: Truth is Stranger than Fiction, a book of political satire that she also illustrated; L’etranger, a play about the murder of the Cambridge University-educated gay law lecturer, Dr Duncan; a one woman show for the Adelaide Festival Fringe titled Habeas Corpus and The Local State: a history of Queensland local government. She lives in the Torres Strait with her partner Aurora.