Journalist Karen Kissane has been a senior writer with the Age newspaper in Melbourne. Kissane covered Victoria's 2009 'Black Saturday' bushfires for the newspaper and later wrote the non-fiction title Worst of Days: Inside the Black Saturday Firestorm. The book, described by its publisher as a 'behind-the-scenes story of the people who were inside Black Saturday's most deadly firestorm, the Kilmore blaze', won the 2010 Colin Roderick Award.