ABOUT ME

I grew up above my parents’ Melbourne bookshop surrounded by other people’s stories, so I guess it was only a matter of time until I wrote one of my own.

My career took me down a completely different path and I eventually came to writing after having my first baby. Looking for a creative outlet, and desperate to carve out some me time, I put proverbial pen to paper certain that I was destined to be Australia’s next great storyteller.

Fortunately, it didn’t take me long to figure out that I wasn’t particularly great at writing. I underwent extensive training through the Australian Writers’ Centre and immersed myself in the craft of writing for several years before I began penning my first novel.

In 2021, my then unpublished manuscript of The Whispering won the HarperCollins Banjo Prize for fiction and I landed my first book deal. Since then, I’ve gone on to sign a further two book deal.

My second book, The Drowning Girls, will be available in July 2023 with a third out in 2024. Today, I’m still pinching myself that I get to call myself an author.

When I’m not writing, I can usually be found hiding from my kids in a bid to read just one more chapter or behind my computer googling the various ways to dispose of a dead body.