Lisa Walker
Author of Literary Fiction
based in NSW
Lisa is the author of seven adult and YA novels in the women’s fiction and cosy crime genres. These were published in Australia by HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, and Wakefield Press. Two were also published by Harper360 in the US and UK, and one has been optioned for film. Her recent YA cosy crime novel was shortlisted for the Australian Davitt Awards in two categories. Her first psychological suspense novel, inspired by walking the Camino in Spain, will be published in 2025.
She was previously a winner of the Byron Writers Festival short story award and finalist in the ABC short story award. She has also been published in The Guardian, The Big Issue, Griffith Review and The Sydney Morning Herald, and has had a radio play produced on ABC Radio National. She has been awarded three Varuna Writers House residencies, as well as grants from Creative Australia, Copyright Australia, and Create NSW, and has appeared at numerous writers’ festivals in Australia and overseas. She has a PhD in creative writing.
