Sophie Cunningham

Sophie Cunningham has been on the publishing scene in Australia for more than thirty years and is the author of four books, Geography (2004), Bird  (2008), Melbourne (2011) and Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy (2014).  She is writing her third novel, 'This Devastating Fever' based on Leonard Woolf’s life and a book of linked essays called '#treeoftheday'. She is an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University’s non/fictionLab and the current recipient of the United States Studies Centre-Indiana University Creative Arts Fellowship for 2018. She was a founding member of the Stella Prize and has held a variety of positions on the Stella Board over the last six years.