Here’s a flattering profile of me in T Magazine Australia.
I live and work on Gadigal land in Sydney, Australia.
I’ve written analysis, opinion, short fiction, essays, and arts criticism. I was shortlisted for a Walkley Award for my investigative journalism.
I’m qualified to practice law (but do not) and have published peer-reviewed research. I’m currently doing a PhD in law at the University of Sydney where I also previously lectured in media law. I was the 2020 Copyright Agency x UTS Writer-in-Residence.
Portraits by the very excellent Saskia Wilson
Projects
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).
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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.
SEED
30 September 2025
Tour dates announced in July
An astonishing new novel from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Eggshell Skull and The Work.
Mitchell is a brilliant biologist, committed to the environment and the growing global antinatalist movement. For one month each year he lives with his colleague Frances in a utopia of radical equality and scientific dedication in Antarctica. They are concluding the Anarctos Project: a seed vault in an isolated, secret location. It is a biodiversity insurance policy against humanity’s devastating effects on the rapidly warming planet.
But when their helicopter doesn’t pick them up, and strange things begin to happen, their faith in science is suddenly not enough. Mitchell has been keeping big secrets – from Frances and from himself. The ice haunts him with memories of a devastating betrayal and questions of legacy and fairness crowd his mind.
If they don’t get back to McMurdo Station before the last flight home they face a long dark polar winter together. Alone. As the days get shorter, these two people of firm logic and reason begin finding fault lines in their perfect social experiment. Thrilling, original and almost unbearably suspenseful, Seed offers an uneasy glimpse into isolation, love and our worst fears.
“Like having a wine with mates after a long week and chatting about all the things that make you think—with cute, fun bits as well.”
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CONTACT
please email my literary agent:
Grace Heifetz at a4 Literary
For enquiries about events and speaking opportunities, please email either of my speaking agents:
Farah Parkinson at Saxton
Lucy Broome at Speaking Out