Erin Hortle is a surfer and Tasmanian-based author who has written about the intersection of gender and surf culture in her award-winning essay “How Do You Make Them Let You Belong” (Island Magazine) along with her piece “The Problem with Sexiness in Surf Culture” (Kill Your Darlings). Her second novel, A Catalogue of Love (Simon and Schuster 2025), is a lyrical work of realist fiction that is profoundly concerned with what it means to be a woman and a surfer in contemporary Australia.