‘all grit’ – Australian Book Review
‘distinctly Australian’ – Sydney Morning Herald
‘expertly crafted’ – National Library of Australia
‘fiction at its most arresting’ – TEXT
‘where the natural world collides with the dark edges of suburban life. At once reflective and irreverent, these poems deftly interrogate the contradictions that run through the national psyche’ – Judging Panel, QLD Literary Awards
about
LUKE JOHNSON is a writer and academic from Wollongong, NSW. His poems, stories, essays and criticism have been widely published and performed in Australia and have won or been listed for numerous national prizes, including the Queensland Literary Awards, the AAWP Chapter One Prize, the Elizabeth Jolley Award, the Josephine Ulrick Award, the Katharine Susannah Prichard Award as well as several development fellowships. He is the author two books, Ferocious Animals (2021) and Kangaroo Unbound (2025), a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Wollongong, and incoming fiction editor of Southerly – Australia’s oldest literary journal.
