Ashley Kalagian Blunt is the author of How to Be Australian and My Name Is Revenge, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Woollahra Digital Literary Awardsand was a finalist in the 2018 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award. Her writing appears in the Sydney Morning Herald, Overland, Griffith Review, Sydney Review of Books, Australian Book Review, Kill Your Darlings and more. Ashley teaches creative writing and co-hosts James and Ashley Stay at Home, apodcast about writing, creativity and health. Originally from Canada, she has lived and worked in South Korea, Peru and Mexico.
‘Hold on tight because this heart-stopping page-turner will shake you to your core. With its bizarre crimes, explosive revelations, and unbearable tension, Dark Mode shatters our blithe acceptance of the online world in a nail-biting thriller that is unforgettable. Ashley Kalagian Blunt is a masterful storyteller who has ingeniously twisted fact with fiction to deliver an absolute cracker of a read. Honestly, you won’t be able to put it down until you know who, when, where, how and why. Leave the light on, lock your door, and for god’s sake, check your privacy settings.’ -- Lyn Yeowart, The Silent Listener 'I tore through Dark Mode in one sitting. Ashley Kalagian Blunt brilliantly captures the violence of misogyny and how, like a carnivorous pitcher plant, it can swallow us whole. A smart, suspenseful, harrowing page-turner. You won’t be able to put this book down.' -- Sarah Sentilles, author of Stranger Care ‘Kalagian Blunt has spun a terrifying psychological thriller about the cost of being a woman when misogynists have increasingly sophisticated technology at their fingertips’ * The Age *