Beryl Fletcher began writing at fifty. She has a tremendous gift for fluid, compelling story telling and uses her craft to hold a mirror to the lives of women. She is also the author of the Commonwealth Prize-winning Best First Novel, The Word Burners, which has been subsequently reprinted as a Spinifex Feminist Classic. The Iron Mouth and The Silicon Tongue form a loose trilogy with The Word Burners, each novel taking up a different aspect of storytelling. 

Her fourth novel, The Bloodwood Clan, tells of a Christian fundamentalist sect, who espouse a philosophy that prohibits the use of modern appliances and technologies. Escape, secrecy, and hypocrisy are at the centre of this intriguing tale of religious and racial intolerance.  

Fletcher's most recent book is a memoir, The House at Karamu (2003).