Erik Jensen is the editor-in-chief of Schwartz Media, publisher of The Saturday Paper and The Monthly. He is the author of Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen and On Kate Jennings. The film of his first book, for which he co-wrote the screenplay, won the Critics’ Prize at the Melbourne International Film Festival. His journalism has won the Walkley Award for Young Print Journalist of the Year and the UNAA’s Media Peace Award. His next work, Quarterly Essay 74, is out in June.