Published Work

Novels

• Cul-de-Sac, Ultimo Press, 2026
• The Coast, Allen & Unwin, 2022
• The Passengers, Allen & Unwin, 2018
• Long Bay, Sleepers Publishing, 2015
• What Was Left, Sleepers Publishing, 2013

Short Stories & Essays

• Short story “Rate and Review” in The Saturday Paper, July 2026
• Article on ocean swimming and sharks in The Guardian, June 2026
• “Dark Water, Shallow Sea”, Newcastle Short Story Anthology, December 2025
• Opinion on the US Election results “After Trump’s Win…” in The Guardian, November 2024
• Article on trail running and ocean swimming “Shark or Man” in The Guardian, June 2024
• Short story “Like Animals”, Openbook, Autumn 2024
• Essay “Never Again” in Kill Your Darlings, summer 2023
• Short story “Carve” in Meanjin, Autumn 2023
• Short story “Let Them Eat Cake” in The Saturday Paper, January 2023
• Short story “Churn” in The Saturday Paper, July 2022
• Article on ocean swimming in The Guardian, June 2022
• “Bendalong”, Openbook, Summer 2021
• “Jingle Bell Sock”, The Big Issue, December 2021
• “Cultivating Resilience by Protecting Vulnerability“, Writing NSW, August 2021
• “A Snail’s Place”, The Big Issue, March 2021
• “The Baby Store”, Newcastle Short Story Award Anthology, May 2020
• “The Burning”, Meanjin Blog, January 2020
• “Dummy”, Griffith Review 64: The New Disruptors, April 2019
• “Her history, my silence”, Choice Words, Allen & Unwin, March 2019
• “The Hunt“, The Big Issue Fiction Edition, August 2018
• “In the Dunes”, Sydney Noir, Akashic Books, 2018, and Brio Books in Australia
• “The Call of the Stars”, Backstory Journal, Issue Four, 2017
• “Five Star”, published in Kill Your Darlings, April 2017
• “On Ice”, published in Kill Your Darlings No. 19, October 2014, reprinted in Best Australian Stories 2015
• “The Arizona Bar”, published in Sleepers Almanac X, Sleepers Publishing, October 2015
• “There’s so much you have to know”, published in the Sleepers Almanac No. 9, Sleepers Publishing, April 2014
• “On listening to Gillian Welch” published in Readings Monthly, April 2014
• “Sao”, published in the Review of Australian Fiction, March 2014
• Essay on wisdom in Finding our place: thoughts on love, hope and belonging, The Benevolent Society’s 200th anniversary book, November 2013
• “Kid-Free”, published in the Sleepers Almanac No. 8, Sleepers Publishing, March 2013
• “Hot Air Balloon”, published in the 2007 UTS Writers Anthology, What You Do and Don’t Want

Some of my reviews and other journalism

• Review of After You Were Gone by Vikki Wakefield in The Conversation
• Review of Childless by Sian Prior in The Conversation
• Review of The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili in The Sydney Morning Herald
• Review of The Gulf by Anna Spargo-Ryan and Ache by Eliza Henry-Jones in The Australian
• Review of Barking Dogs by Rebekah Clarkson from The Sydney Morning Herald
• Review of The Wonder by Emma Donoghue from The Sydney Morning Herald
• “Books as Medicine” – article on bibliotherapy in Newswrite Issue 229, October-November 2016
• Review of Oliver of the Levant by Debra Jopson from The Sydney Morning Herald
• Review of Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist by Sunil Yapa from The Sydney Morning Herald
• Review of Rush Oh! by Shirley Barrett from The Australian
• Review of Relativity by Antonia Hayes from The Sydney Morning Herald
• Review of One Life by Kate Grenville from The Sun Herald
• Review of The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader from The Sydney Morning Herald
• Review of The Lion Rampant by Blanche d’Alpuget from The Australian
• “Does Size Really Matter?” – an article on small versus large publishers in Newswrite Issue 216, August-September 2014
• Review of The Young Lion by Blanche d’Alpuget from The Australian
• Review of Blood and Beauty by Sarah Dunant from The Australian
• Review of The Memory Trap by Andrea Goldsmith from The Australian
• Review of Love is a Canoe by Ben Schrank from The Australian
• Review of The Oldest Song in the World  by Sue Woolfe from The Sun Herald
• Review of The Daughters of Mars by Tom Keneally from The Sun Herald
• Review of Lone Wolf by Jodi Picoult from The Sun Herald
• Review of The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska from The Sun Herald
• Review of Jaycee Dugard’s A Stolen Life from The Sun Herald
• “The Theatre of War” a travel piece from The Sydney Morning Herald
• “Rekindling the flame: Sex and the long-term relationship” from ABC Health & Wellbeing
• “Meditation no cure, but it helps” from The Australian
• “At home in the bush, park ranger and pioneer Karamoana McKean” from History, a magazine of the Royal Australian Historical Society
• “E-records – a healthy chart buster” from The Sydney Morning Herald

Awards & Grants

• Visiting Fellow at the State Library of NSW, 2025 & 2026
• Recipient of Create NSW 23/24 Project Funding for Individuals for memoir in progress, 2023.
• Recipient of Creative Australia Arts Project for Individuals grant for novel in progress, 2023.
• Awarded a Varuna Fellowship Writing Retreat 2023
• Winner of the 2020 Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship from the Australian Society of Authors
• “The Burning” shortlisted for the Woollahra Digital Literary Award, 2020
• Established Writer-in-Residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writer’s Centre in Perth, October/November 2020
• Shortlisted for the Text Prize for YA and Children’s Writing, 2019
• Shortlisted for the Overland Fair Australia Prize in Fiction, 2017
• Winner of the Historical Novel Society Australasia Short Story Prize, 2017
• Recipient of an Australia Council for the Arts Individual Arts Project Grant in 2016 for third novel
• Recipient of a Career Fund grant from the Copyright Agency to attend the 2016 Tin House Summer Workshop in Portland, Oregon
• What Was Left Shortlisted for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal 2014
• What Was Left Longlisted for the Voss Literary Prize 2014
• Runner-up in the NSW Writer’s Centre Varuna Fellowship 2013
• Awarded a Varuna Fellowship Writing Retreat 2013
• Author of winning essay for Parenting Media Association Awards in “Personal Essay” category 2011
• Shortlisted for the Varuna Publisher Fellowship Awards 2011