I’m an author and ABIA-winning ghostwriter of global bestsellers as well as more modest successes with my name on the cover.

My memoir, The Feel-Good Hit of the Year, was shortlisted for the National Biography Award and the Ned Kelly Best True Crime award. It was followed in 2015 by Mistakes Were Made, a book about why you should never write a memoir. But if you DO want to write a memoir, I teach an online course on the craft of it with Kill Your Darlings.

I was co-recipient of the 2014 M Literary Award, winner of the 2015 Geoff Dean Short Story Prize, and the 2018 National Library of Australia Creative Arts Fellow for Australian Writing.

My first novel, The Toymaker, received the 2016 Christina Stead Fiction. The others are Sweetness and Light and the new release Appreciation, which is objectively the most fun of the three.