Josie McSkimming
Author of Memoir and Biography
based in NSW
Josie McSkimming is a social worker, psychotherapist, university lecturer and author. She is the youngest of three sisters, her eldest being the award-winning poet, Dorothy Porter. Josie has appeared on many podcasts, radio programs, and on ABC TV. She is committed to social change and social justice and has become an ardent amateur naturalist and environmentalist. She was once an insider of evangelical Christianity, until she became a loud protesting outsider. Josie lives in Sydney.
Her most recent book is Gutsy Girls (2025) UQP, a family memoir of her late sister, the trailblazing queer writer, Dorothy Porter.
Her previous book, Leaving Christian Fundamentalism and the Reconstruction of Identity (2016), Routledge, is about the identity changes when people leave high demand religious churches and communities.
