As well as being an author and editor, Michael Heyward is the managing director and publisher for Text Publishing, a multi–award winning independent publishing company in Melbourne, which turns twenty this year. Text publishes Australian and international authors including Barack Obama, Kate Grenville, Helen Garner, Tim Flannery, Yann Martel, Peter Temple, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Lloyd Jones, Geraldine Doogue, J M Coetzee, Janet Malcolm, Nick Cave and MJ Hyland.