Nike Bourke, BA(CA), BA(Hons), PhD, ("The Secret Cure") teaches in the creative writing and cultural studies discipline at Queensland University of Technology. In 2000, Nike won the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Best Emerging Queensland Author for her novel The Bone Flute which was released by UQP in 2001. Her children's book, What the Sky Knows, was published in May 2005 and has been shortlisted for two separate categories in the 2006 Children's Book Council of Australia Awards. Her adult novel, 'The True Green of Hope' was released in August 2005. She has been a ghost writer for a long time, which isn't nearly as exciting and spooky as it sounds. She is also a regular reviewer for the Courier Mail.

She has four children, none of whom have ever been expelled from school, though they have tried.