is the author or editor of 19 books, including fiction, non-fiction, reference works and edited collections. Her 2008 novel, The Household Guide to Dying, was published around the world, and was short- and long-listed for several literary awards. Other fiction includes Letter to George Clooney (2013), The Women’s Pages (2015) and Zebra, which won the short story category in the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards. She has also published The Innocent Reader: reflections on reading & writing (2019) and Creative Writing Practice: reflections on form & process (edited with Sarah Attfield, 2021). Her latest book is the novella, When I Am Sixty-Four.

lives in Sydney on Dharug land with her husband and four children. She worked as a hospital pharmacist for several years before writing freelance for newspapers and magazines. Zohra has an MA in Creative Writing and her essays and fiction have appeared in various literary journals and anthologies.

is a Goorie and Koori poet, editor and researcher. She lives on Wurundjeri Country where she is a lecturer at the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development, a co-editor of Overland Literary Journal and Chairperson for the Board of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies. Her debut poetry collection, Dropbear, won the 2022 Stella Prize and the Australian Book Industry Award’s 2022 Small Publisher’s Adult Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the premier’s awards of New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria. Her work has also received the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, the Judith Wright Poetry Prize and a Melbourne Prize Career Development Award. Her latest collection is The Rot.

is an acclaimed writer and teacher from Western Sydney. Her first YA book, The F Team, was published by Giramondo and has been shortlisted for many awards including the Ethel Turner Prize for Young Adult Literature as well as for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award. Her writing has featured in Arab, Australian, Other, SBS Voices, Sydney Review of Books and writer festivals all over the country. Rawah founded Green Hat Academy, an online writing platform, to help excel both primary and secondary students in all aspects of Literacy. 

is a communicator, storyteller, advocate, moderator, journalist, curator, podcaster and author. She is the founder and Artistic Director of True Story Festival and the host of Life Sentences, a podcast dedicated to the practice of contemporary biography.

is a writer and critic. His books include the novels Wrack, The Deep Field, The Resurrectionist, Clade and Ghost Species, all of which were shortlisted for or won major literary awards, a book of poetry, Paper Nautilus, and a work of non-fiction, Deep Water, which won the 2025 NSW Literary Award for Non-Fiction and a Gold Medal in the 2025 Nautilus Awards and was shortlisted for the Prime Minster’s Award for Non-Fiction and the Queensland Literary Award for Non-Fiction. In 2012 he won the Pascall Award for Australia’s Critic of the Year. His latest novel, Landfall, is published by Penguin.

is a writer, poet, educator, and musician. His work has been shortlisted in the 2025 Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize; won the 2023 Banjo Paterson Writing Awards for Contemporary Poetry; and was longlisted in the 2023 Fish Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Cordite, Island, Verandah, fourW, Brushstrokes, and Live Encounters. His debut collection Finding Pan is available at 5islandspress.com

is the author of six poetry collections. Her latest book, Seang (Hungering), was commended by President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins as “an important contribution to a vital conversation on hunger, migration and displacement”. Anne’s work is widely published and awarded internationally, ranking in The Irish Times’ Most Read. Her awards include the American Writers Review Prize, AAALS Poetry Prize and Henry Lawson Poetry Prize. She holds a PhD in archival poetry and poetics of resistance from University of Technology Sydney where she teaches creative writing.

is an author, podcaster and mentor. Her stories feature complex women and fraught family relationships. She is a hybrid author with 7 published novels and 3 novellas (published as part of the annual HQ Christmas anthology) and is now published by UK publisher Vinci Books. Pamela is the host of the Writes4Women podcast, and teaches writing workshops through her business, Wildwords, and at various writer’s centres.

writes on unceded Dharawal land, and teaches writing at the University of Wollongong. Her books include Flight (Gazebo Books, 2024) and This is What it Feels Like (Recent Works Press, 2025), an ekphrastic series written with four other writers. Her short works have appeared in Best Australian Stories, Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry, Dreaming Awake, New Writing, TEXT, Animal Studies Journal, Cordite, Overland, Antipodes, Southerly, Island, takahe, Eunoia Review, and various Spineless Wonders collections. She has received an ANU HRC Fellowship, a Bundanon Artists Residency and the Varuna House Eleanor Dark Flagship Fellowship.

is an acclaimed poet, visual artist, motorcyclist and volunteer firefighter, living on unceded Ngunnawal/Ngambri Country near Braidwood on the NSW Southern Tablelands. Her poetry has won the Blake Prize, been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and been shortlisted for many awards including the Peter Porter Prize. Her visual art has won her residencies, awards, and wide acclaim, here and overseas. She has published two collections of poetry, The Myrrh-Bearers and The Lumen Seed.

researches the reception of the Middle Ages, with a primary focus on the nineteenth century. Her work centres on women's writing and women's history.

was born in Sri Lanka and lives in Warrane/Sydney. Her fiction has won numerous awards. Her most recent novel is Theory & Practice (2024).

is a trauma therapist and justice advocate working at the intersection of trauma, gendered violence, criminalisation and systems reform. She is the Founder and CEO of Neuro Vitality and The Trauma Recovery Network, delivering trauma-informed practice across clinical, corporate and policy environments. Felicia is the creator of the Growth-Focused Trauma Model and has led national research into trauma and adverse childhood experiences among people with conviction histories. She is the author of the bestselling memoir Accessory (2025, Simon & Schuster), recognised for its feminist examination of violence, poverty and the justice-system.

is a paleontologist, an explorer, a conservationist and a leading writer on climate change. His books include the award-winning international bestseller The Weather Makers, Here on Earth, Atmosphere of Hope and Europe: The First 100 Million Years, as well as his collaborations with his daughter, Emma Flannery, Big Meg and A Brief History of Climate Folly.

is an Australian-based writer, now living in the industrial town of Port Kembla south of Sydney. In 2005, his first collection of short stories – Trouble in the Garden – was published by Ginninderra Press and was short-listed for the Queensland Premier’s Steele Rudd award for short-stories and won the 2005 ACT Publishing and Writing Award. In 2007 his second collection — Not a flotation device — was published by Ginninderra Press. This collection won the ACT Writing and Publishing Award 2008.

is the author of the USA Today bestselling novels, The Woman in the Library and Five Found Dead as well as the multi-award-winning 10-book historical crime series The Rowland Sinclair Mysteries, the Greek myth retelling The Hero Trilogy and the postmodern crime novel After She Wrote Him, which won the 2018 Ned Kelly Award. The Woman in the Library was the inaugural winner of the CrimeFictionLover Award (UK) for Best Novel from an Independent Publisher and nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award in 2023. In 2025 Sulari won the Mary Higgins Clark Award with The Mystery Writer. Five Found Dead was nominated for the 2026 Edgar Awards.

is the author of the bestsellers The Land Before Avocado, Flesh Wounds and Best Wishes. His new book, How to Ruin a Child, will be published by ABC Books in October. For many years, he presented Thank God It's Friday on ABC radio. His weekly column appears in The Sydney Morning Herald each Saturday.

is a poet, writer and editor with a Masters of Professional Writing from UTS. She published a chapbook of poetry, Count the Ways, in 2011, and a book of poetry, Tannic Skin and Sweet Flesh in 2026. She was the winner of the 2011 AAWP First Chapter prize. Her poetry and short stories have featured in journals, anthologies and online. Linda was the Program Manager for Wollongong Writers Festival 2015 to 2018, and is curator of Rocket Readings, readings of poetry, and Little Fictions, live performances of short stories. She is a fiction reader for Overland magazine and reviews for Newtown Review of Books.

is a writer and editor who lives and works on Gadigal land. She has worked in publishing, in Australia and abroad, for over 35 years. She is the author of the bestselling book, The Sunbird, which is now also a book for middle-grade readers.

is a coastal scientist, nature writer and am emerging popular science writer. She works alongside Traditional Owners of Sea Country to learn how coastal environments have changed across broader scales of space and time. She has written several books, including the textbook Spatial Analysis of Coastal Environments (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and the essay collection Coral Reefs of Australia: Perspectives from beyond the water’s edge (CSIRO Publishing, 2022). Her latest book is Plotting the Oceans: Stories of Popular Maps and Their Makers (Monash University Press, 2026).

is the author of seven novels as well as a memoir, a poetry collection and several dramas for stage and for BBC radio. Her awards UK include the Arts Council of England Writers Award, the Wingate Award, the Hallam Poetry Prize and the Southern Arts Award. Her work has longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, shortlisted for the Scottish Writer of the Year Award, the Edinburgh Fringe Critics’ Awards, the Kibble Prize, the West Australian Premier’s Book Awards, and the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. In 2011 she founded the Australian Writers Mentoring Program.

wrote the Walkley Book Award-winning The Winter Road: A killing at Croppa Creek (Black Inc., 2021). It won the 2022 NSW Premier’s Literary awards for Nonfiction, and for Community and Regional History, and the Sisters in Crime Davitt true crime award. Her bestselling In My Skin: A memoir, was published by Text Publishing in 2005. The Romantic: Italian Nights and Days, a second memoir, was published in 2010. Kate has published essays, short stories, and literary criticism in major journals, plus a column in The Age, appearing most recently in The Saturday Paper.

is a writer and academic who lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Wollongong. Christine works across various genres – fiction, poetry and essays – and increasingly works and writes collaboratively. Her first novel, Song in the Dark, was published by Penguin, and her short works have appeared in the Griffith Review, Island, Cordite, TEXT, and Law, Text, Culture, as well as anthologies published by Spineless Wonders Press and Recent Work Press. 

is the author of five adult novels, including The Dressmakers of Yarrandarrah Prison, which was twice voted into the Better Reading Top 100 and is currently optioned for television. A former literary editor, she was also the co-founder and director of StoryFest held on the NSW South Coast and is a seasoned writers’ festival facilitator. Her latest novel, The Importance of Being Delia, is a witty and poignant exploration of the lives of women who have spent a lifetime sacrificing themselves on the altar and love and are finally ready to reclaim their own identity.

is a poet, installation artist, and publisher. Gareth’s poetry collection, Recipes for the Disaster, was published by 5 Islands Press in 2019 – it won the Anne Elder Award and was highly commended in the Mary Gilmore Prize. The Inclination Compass, a multimedia poetic narrative, was published in 2023 with Puncher and Wattman. His immersive art installations involve poetic sound compositions, electronics, video, UV-light, and sculptural assemblages. Gareth is the founder and managing editor of Apothecary Archive, a member of the editorial advisory board of 5 Islands Press, and teaches at Macquarie University and the National Art School.

edits the Sydney Review of Books, which is based in the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University. He has been Assistant Editor at Griffith Review and Australian Book Review. Prior to becoming an editor, he was a literary studies academic.

is an award-winning journalist, presenter, author and human rights advocate whose surname has now become a verb — Lattoufed: to be sacked or silenced for standing your ground. Her landmark win, Lattouf v ABC, became a flashpoint in debates about free speech, employee rights, institutional cowardice, and what happens when a journalist speaks truth to (media) power. Her latest book, Women Who Win, is an exploration of women who saw the rulebook, chuckled and used it as a coaster. Antoinette’s work spans commercial and public broadcasting, boardrooms, courtrooms, and the occasional Murdoch media pile-on. And no, she’s not done yet.

is a neurodiverse author, artist, librarian and rubbish-picker-upperer based in Djiringanj and Thaua Countries. Her first two books, The Waterfowl Are Drunk! and Dear Ibis (both published by Spineless Wonders) are collections of short stories set in regional Australia, with Dear Ibis winning an ACT Writers award for fiction in 2022. Her third book, To Heal a Lyrebird (2025), forms part of a larger project titled The Lyrebird Project, which delves into fashion, music, theatre, art, poetry, installation, and protest. To Heal a Lyrebird has been shortlisted for the Australian Book Design awards (2026) and for Fiction in the Marion ACT Literary Awards (2026). 

teaches Creative Writing at the University of Wollongong. His stories and essays have appeared in The Bridport Prize Anthology, Best Australian Stories, Animal Studies Journal, Griffith Review, Plumwood Mountain, Axon, Unlikely, Text and Southerly. His ‘novel in stories’ about grief and climate change, The Flight of Birds (Sydney University Press, 2019) was shortlisted for the 2019 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction and the 2020 Mascara Literary Review Avant Garde Awards for Best Fiction. He is also part of the multi-authored project, 100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder (Open Humanities Press, 2019).

is an independent journalist, film-maker and author of the global best-selling book, The Palestine Laboratory (which is also a podcast and Al Jazeera English series). He's the host of The Antony Loewenstein Podcast and appears on CNN, Al Jazeera English and other media outlets.

is a Yuin writer, who grew up on the Far South Coast of NSW as part of a large and proud Aboriginal family. Gary was always writing as a child, and continued his creative journey when he moved to Sydney to study at film school. Gary has experience working in youth work, Aboriginal health, child protection, the disability sector (including experience working in the youth justice system) and the film industry. His young adult novels, The Boy from the Mish, We Didn't Think It Through, and I'm Not Really Here have been shortlisted for numerous awards.

is an educator and University of Wollongong graduate (majoring in Creative Writing and English Literatures) living on Dharawal land. Rhys co-founded the the Young Writers Collective with Helena Fox in 2020 and has been leading writing workshops for the YWP and YWC since 2019. Their work can be found in the YWC anthologies—Uncommon Words and Days Since—and in Alteracation Magazine.

is an accountant and poet from Picton, NSW. Winner of the 2025 Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize, a Pushcart and Best New Poets nominee, she’s been shortlisted for the ACU and Robert Gray Poetry Prizes and longlisted for the Liquid Amber and Ros Spencer Poetry Prizes. Her poetry has appeared in Australian and international journals and anthologies, including Rattle, Rochford Street Review, Catchment Literary Journal, Locative Magazine, and publications from 5 Islands Press, One Art, WestWords, and WA Poets. Her debut poetry collection, Shelf Life, was published by 5 Islands Press in 2026.

is the author of two novels, To Sing of War (Fourth Estate HarperCollins) and Storyland  (2017 Fourth Estate HarperCollins), which was shortlisted for the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the 2018 Barbara Jefferis Award, the 2018 Voss Literary Prize and was named one of ABC TV’s The Book Club’s Five of the Best in 2017. Storyland is being adapted into a play by Catherine and Aunty Barb Nicholson, produced by IPAC. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Text Journal, Griffith Review, Meanjin, Narrative, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, Island, and Sydney Morning Herald. She teaches creative writing at the University of Wollongong. 

is the accomplished writer of novels, short stories and essays, is a regular contributor to The Conversation, and is a former Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Macquarie University. She is the founder and director of StorySALOON, a live show and podcast dedicated to Australian short stories. She lives in Sydney on Gadigal country.

is the author of four novels — Skylarking (2016), The Mother Fault (2020), The Hummingbird Effect (2023) and The Hiding Place (2025). The Hummingbird Effect was longlisted for the 2024 Stella Prize and shortlisted for the 2024 ABIA literary Fiction Book of the year. In 2024 she released her first children’s book To Stir with Love illustrated by Jess Racklyeft, shortlisted for the 2025 Indie Book Awards and the 2025 ABIA Children’s Book of the Year and Notable in the CBCA Book Awards for Early Readers. For six years she co-hosted The First Time podcast interviewing hundreds of writers including Tim Winton, Helen Garner, Richard Flanagan, George Saunders & Sarah Winman.

is a storyteller whose writing engages with truth-telling through fiction. Her debut novel, Secrets, which won the 2022 Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship, was published by Bundyi in 2025 and her short fiction and poetry have been published in various literary anthologies. Judi’s historical novel manuscript, Crossing the Creek, was shortlisted for The Australian Fiction Prize 2025 and will be published by Bundyi in January 2027. After 23 years on Wadi Wadi Country, where the South Coast Writers Centre was important in her writing journey, Judi now lives gratefully on Gumbaynggirr Country.

is the internationally bestselling author of 15 books of fiction and non-fiction, published in 19 countries and 13 languages in a career that has spanned over a quarter of a century. Her latest is the feminist historical fiction novel The Italian Secret, set in 1940s Sydney and Naples. She is an experienced keynote speaker, documentary and podcast host, award-winning human rights advocate, and holistic practitioner working in the tradition of her ancestral foremothers and teaching the Elder Futhark runes. A dual Canadian-Australian citizen, she gratefully lives in the Blue Mountains, the traditional lands of the Gundungurra and Darug People.

worked on Australian television crime dramas, wrote three crime novels, and was nominated for a Ned Kelly for his debut crime fiction Something for Nothing (Affirm, 2017). A past board member of BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival, Andy now works as a Assistant Curator in museums, a role that a allows him to apply all of his storyteller's curiosity to explore and share Australia's complex histories.

is a Wadi Wadi Elder and Life Member of the SCWC. She directs the Ngana Barangarai (Black Wallaby) project which has collected and published writing from First Australian inmates in Junee Correctional Centre for the last twelve years, and recently oversaw the program’s introduction into Dillwynia Women’s Correctional Centre.

is an award-winning journalist, author, editor and writing coach whose work spans print, digital, broadcast, and publishing. She has been a regular contributor to The Sydney Morning Herald for more than two decades, including its flagship Good Weekend magazine. Erin is the winner of an Australian UN Media Peace Award, and a Walkley Awards finalist. She has lectured at the University of Sydney for two decades. As a ghostwriter, she is co-author of Accessory with Felicia Djamirze and Swellbeing with Blake Johnston. Her communications consultancy, Good Prose Studios, specialises in strategic storytelling.

is an author, environmentalist and advocate, with two decades working in journalism, communications and campaigns across Australia and around the world. Claire helps others take action on the multiple crises facing people and planet through her role as CEO at AEGN. Her first book, Together We Can, was published by Allen & Unwin in 2022.

is an internationally bestselling Australian author celebrated for poetry that speaks tenderly to love, loss, healing, and self-discovery. Her books include the Pillow Thoughts series, Watering the Soul, I Hope You Stay, and Time Will Tell, which have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into multiple languages. Based on the NSW South Coast, she writes across poetry, contemporary storytelling, and fiction. Often accompanied by her dogs and chickens, Courtney hopes to continue exploring the art of expression for many years to come.

is the author of The Transformations (2025) and Lucky's (2020), both of which were published by Picador. Lucky's won the 2021 Readings Prize and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. He lectures in creative writing at the University of Technology Sydney.

is a broadcaster, writer, composer, facilitator and MC extraordinaire. He has been the Mornings host on ABC Illawarra for two decades, conducting daily interviews with both the powerful and the peculiar, wrapped in his witty and warm style. Nick has toured Australia as a corporate entertainer, and following his many weeks as an emergency broadcaster during Black Summer, created “Watch and Act”, a much-praised theatrical event which debuted to a sold-out theatre in the fire-ravaged Shoalhaven.

is a multi-disciplinary, multi-award-winning Thai Australian writer and author of poetry collections Banana Girl and Barefoot Poetess, shortlisted for awards in Australia, Greece, UK and USA. Paris’s poetry has been published in a plethora of literary journals and anthologies including Australian Poetry Journal, Splinter, and Sky Island Journal. Winner of the Matthew Rocca Poetry Prize 2025, Paris is a critic for Mascara Literary Journal, Guest Editor for Written Off Literary Journal, and sits on the Hunter Writers’ Centre Board. She is currently working on her debut novel, Bruised Fruit, exploring diaspora, desire, and cultural inheritance.

is the internationally best-selling author of Dirt Town and Girl Falling, and a former writers' festival director.

is the award-winning author of ten books, including The Thinning, Willowman, Mr Wigg and Understory: a life with Trees. She has PhDs in creative writing and English literature, and her essays and short stories have been widely published. Her recently released Once We Were Wildlife: stories explores the boundaries between the human and more-than-human worlds. Inga lives on the far south coast among trees.

was shortlisted for this year's Newcastle Poetry Prize. His poems are published in the Liquid Amber Poetry Prize anthology, Cordite, Overland and other prominent literary journals. His second poetry collection, Sea Lake Mountain, is out now from Walleah Press. Ed was a newspaper reporter for 30 years in cities and country towns across Australia and in England. He taught journalism in Queensland universities for a decade. He has hitchhiked across America and is a foundation member of the Gold Coast Surf World museum. He lives at Wallaga Lake.

is a poet, producer, parent, and former psychologist living on Wodi Wodi Dharawal land. He also spends some of his time as an Artistic Director at Red Room Poetry. David co-edited Solid Air: Australian & New Zealand Spoken Word (2020) and Admissions: Voices Within Mental Health (2022). His book Case Notes won the 2021 Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry. His newest collection is The Drop Off (Upswell Publishing, 2025).

poet, essayist, nature writer, writing teacher, lives and writes on Gundungurra lands, in Bowral. One of our foremost poets and thinkers, Mark is the author of more than twenty works, widely published and translated around the world. His many books include The Blue Plateau, Walking Underwater, A Beginner's Guide, and The Little Red Writing Book (reissued in 2026 by New South). A Chain of Ponds: New & Selected Poems, long anticipated, is published this July. Mark is Managing Editor of 5Islands Press.

is an Honorary Professor of Communication and Media at the University of Wollongong. She has been reviewing crime fiction for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age for over thirty years and has been a crime fiction judge for the Ned Kelly Awards, the Davitt Awards and the Danger Awards. Sue is an Life Member and Ambassador for Sisters in Crime Australia and is currently Chair of the BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival. She reads a lot of crime.

last appeared at the South Coast Writers & Readers Festival in 2024 when Pantera published Wed By The Wayside: A True Story of Love, Family and Community. She is also the author of Bowerbird: The Art of Making Theatre Drawn from Life (2018), and Dear Lindy: A Nation Responds to the Loss of Azaria published by the National Library of Australia (2017). Currency Press have also published more than twenty of her stage plays including Parramatta Girls, Nucleus, and Grounded. Her plays have won Helpmann, NSW State Literary and Green Room awards.

is a natural connector who brings warmth and curiosity to every conversation. As the creator and host of Dinners with a Difference, she has a gift for drawing out the stories people carry and creating spaces where ideas flow freely. A sought-after conversation partner for book events, Gretel loves nothing more than sitting across from an author and exploring the ideas, obsessions, and creative choices that shaped their work. Whether around a dinner table or on a festival stage, she believes the best conversations leave everyone in the room feeling a little more alive to the world.

work has been published in Best of Australian Poems 2022 and 2024, Glimmer Train, Weird Tales, Cordite, Mascara, Canberra Times, Heroines: An Anthology of Short Fiction and Poetry - Volume 2 (The Neo Perennial Press, 2019), Borderless: a Transnational Anthology of Feminist Poetry (Recent Work Press, Australia, 2021), Other Terrain, Backstory, Verity La, Poem and Dish, FemAsia Magazine, and selected to be performed as part of the Monologue Adventure (Sydney, 2019). She’s been shortlisted twice for both the Newcastle Poetry Prize and for the ACU Prize for Poetry. Her two books of poetry are: I Love Like a Drunk Does (Ginninderra Press, Australia, 2009) and Intact (Flying Island Books, Australia, 2017).

is a cross-disciplinary writer, musician and artist. Her work addresses social justice with a scientific/poetic approach to finding hope in nature. Elizabeth received an Anne Edgeworth Fellowship in 2023 and shortlisting in Woollahra Digital Literary Awards (2023) and Furphy Literary Prize (2024). 2nd Prize: Robyn Mathison, June Shenfield and Passionfruit Poetry (UK) prizes (2025). Published in Overland, The London Reader, Cordite, Portside Review, Poetry D’Amour and Brushstrokes. How to Read A City, Your Place of Last Resort (5 Islands Press, 2026), is a collaboration with punk rock drummer, Richard Lawson—a work shaped by the art of searching for beauty during decline.

is a writer, editor and critic. Her book of essays Small Acts of Disappearance won the 2016 Kibble Award and was shortlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize. Her poetry collections are Knuckled and Domestic Interior, and her most recent essay collection is The World Was Whole. She was the 2024 Judy Harris Writer in Residence at Sydney University’s Charles Perkins Centre. Her debut novel is Kill Your Boomers (Ultimo Press, 2026).

is the author of five novels and author/illustrator of two picture books. Her writing for young adults has won the Prime Minister's Literary Award, Victorian Premier's Literary Award and Western Australian Premier's Book Award, and Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award (twice). Her first novel for adults Better Days was published by Atlantic Books in 2025.