Francesca de Tores is a novelist, poet, and academic. She is the author of four novels, published in more than 20 languages, with film rights optioned by DreamWorks. In addition to a collection of poems, her poetry is widely published in journals and anthologies. Saltblood is her first historical novel.

She grew up in Lutruwita/Tasmania and, after fifteen years in England, is now living in Naarm/Melbourne.