Gillian Wills is a graduate and and an honorary associate from the Royal Academy of Music and an author and arts writer who publishes with InReview, Australian Book Review, Limelight, Griffith Review and The Australian. 

Her memoir Elvis and Me: how a world-weary musician and a broken racehorse rescued each other, Finch Publishing Pty Ltd was released in 2016 in Australia, America, Canada, the UK and NZ and published in second edition by Hawkeye Publishing Pty Ltd in 2026.

Prior to relocating to Brisbane, Queensland from Victoria, Gillian was Dean of Music at the Victorian College of Arts, Melbourne.

Like Beatrice, the heroine of her critically-acclaimed novel Big Music, nicknamed Beat, Gillian owns three horses, two rescue dogs and three ducks and lives on a small farm on the outskirts of Brisbane.