Kim Mahood is an artist and the author of the award-winning nonfiction book Craft for a Dry Lake. For the past nine years Kim has worked with the Walmajarri people of Paruku (Lake Gregory) on cultural and environmental mapping projects, and has facilitated and participated in art, science, writing, film and radio projects with the Walmajarri. She is the only non-Indigenous artist included in the Yiwarra Kuju (Canning Stock Route) art project, and co-edited the recently-published book Desert Lake: art, science and stories from Paruku.