Here’s a flattering profile of me in T Magazine Australia.
I live and work on Gadigal land in Sydney, Australia.
Find me on Instagram.
My first novel, The Work, was published in April 2024. My other books are all non-fiction and include Who Gets to be Smart (2021), Eggshell Skull (2018), and Beauty (2019).
I run a weekly newsletter. Subscribe to News & Reviews here.
In 2024 I co-founded Bibliocarta — a company offering travel for readers and a library for travellers.
Together with the Women’s Justice Network I founded the ‘Freadom Inside’ project that gets books to women incarcerated in NSW. We’re now crowdfunding to pay women with lived experience to run book club programs for those still inside. Support them here.
Listed among the 2019 Australian Financial Review “Women of Influence” (for advocacy)
Finalist for the 2019 Women’s Agenda Leadership Awards ‘Agenda Setter of the Year’ (for advocacy)
Winner of a Queensland Literary Award: 2018 Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Award
Winner of a 2018 Lord Mayor's Young and Emerging Artis's Fellowship for travel to NYC in 2019 (for Beauty)
Jacky Winter Gardens residency, October 2017
Winner of a 2017 Griffith Review Queensland Writer’s Fellowship
Recipient of Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival 2017 writing mentorship
Recipient of the 2016 Ubud Writers Festival Exchange Program Scholarship
Inaugural Kat Muscat Fellow (March 2016 to March 2017)
Shortlisted for the Ray Koppe Young Writers’ Residency 2016
JOURNALISM
THE WORK
Longlisted for the 2025 Indie Book Awards for Debut Fiction
Winner - Pedestrian TV’s 2024 Litty Committee Award for Young Writer of the Year
WHO GETS TO BE SMART
Shortlisted for the 2022 Indie Book Awards
Shortlisted for the 2021 Dymocks Book of the Year
Longlisted for the 2021 Nib Award for research in writing
EGGSHELL SKULL
Winner of the 2019 Ned Kelly Award for True Crime
Winner of the Best Debut Crime Book at the 2019 Davitt Awards for Crime Writing
Winner of the Biography of the Year at the 2019 Australian Book Industry Awards
Shortlisted for the Matt Richell New Writer Award at the 2019 Australian Book Industry Awards
Longlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize
Shortlisted for the 2019 Indie Book Awards
Winner of the 2019 People’s Choice Award at the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards
Shortlisted for the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards in the non-fiction category
Winner of the 2018 Waverley Council "Nib Award" for research in fiction or non-fiction People’s Choice category
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