Kay Kerr is an autistic author and journalist from the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. Her debut novel Please Don’t Hug Me came out in 2020 and was shortlisted for Book of the Year for Older Children at the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA), and listed as a ‘Notable Book’ by the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA). Her second novel, Social Queue, was released with Text Publishing in October of this year. It is a funny and heart-warming romance about deciphering the confusing signals of attraction and navigating a path to love.