Laura Jean McKay

Laura Jean McKay is a writer based in Australia. She is the author of The Animals in That Country (Scribe 2020) – winner of the prestigious Arthur C Clarke Award, The Victorian Prize for Literature, the ABIA Small Publishers Adult Book of the Year and co-winner of the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel 2021. The Animals in That Country has been shortlisted for The Kitschies, The Stella Prize, The Readings Prize and the ASL Gold Medal and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award.

Laura is also the author of Holiday in Cambodia (Black Inc., 2013) and an Adjunct Lecturer in Creative Writing at Massey University, New Zealand. She was awarded the New Zealand Society of Authors Waitangi Day Literary Honours in 2022. Her latest collection is Gunflower (Scribe 2023), named one of Readings Best Books of 2023.

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