Bernard Cohen is the award-winning author of five novels and a children's picture book. He won the 1996 Australian/Vogel Prize for The Blindman's Hat.

Bernard's previous book, The Antibiography of Robert F. Menzies, won the 2015 Russell Prize for Humour Writing and an Arts Council of England Writer's Award.

The Sydney Morning Herald named him among its Best Young Australian Novelists for three consecutive years (1997-99) and he was a University of Technology, Sydney Alumnus of the Year. He is founder and director of The Writing Workshop and holds a Doctorate of Creative Arts from the University of Technology, Sydney. Bernard lives in Sydney.