Shelley Gare is an editor, writer and columnist who trained in Perth. She has been a deputy editor of The Australian newspaper, worked for The Sunday Times in London, and was the founding editor of The Australian's Review of Books for which she won a Walkley. She now writes regularly for magazines and newspapers.

The Triumph of the Airheads – And The Retreat From Commonsense is her first book. In late 2006, playwright David Williamson described it as: “a scorching book of wide-ranging social criticism, beautifully written and forensically accurate … This book is a powerful indictment of the way the whole of western civilization is heading.”

Shelley Gare spent much of her childhood in Geraldton where her mother, Nene Gare, wrote The Fringe Dwellers and her father, Frank Gare, ran the local Aboriginal Affairs office.

She also recently edited the best-selling memoir, A Lion in the Bedroom, and My Life As A Father, a collection of the works of humorist Ross Campbell.