AJ Betts
Author of Literary Fiction
based in WA
A.J. Betts is an award-winning author, speaker, teacher and cyclist. Her latest work, One Song, is a contemporary young-adult novel about a teenage band trying to record a song to enter into the prestigious Triple J Unearthed High competition.
Her earlier works include the two-book speculative fiction series comprising Hive and Rogue, Zac & Mia (which was adapted into an Emmy Award-winning Hollywood television series), Wavelength and Shutterspeed. In 2019, A.J. was awarded a PhD on the topic of Wonder, and won the inaugural Western Australian Premier’s Fellowship.
A.J. has worked in secondary schools as a teacher for over twenty years, and has also taught creative writing in universities. She is originally from Queensland but has lived in Western Australia since 2004.
