Tobias Madden
Author of Young Adult Fiction
based in Other/International
Originally from Ballarat, Tobias now resides in New York City with his husband, Daniel, and their Cavoodle, Ollie. Tobias worked for ten years as a performer, touring Australia and New Zealand with musicals such as Mary Poppins, CATS, and Guys and Dolls.
In 2019, he edited and published Underdog: #LoveOzYA Short Stories and co-wrote the cabaret show Siblingship.
Tobias’s debut novel, Anything But Fine, was published in 2021, and was awarded the Australian Association of Family Therapy’s Book Award for Older Readers, was shortlisted for the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year for Older Readers, was named one of Better Reading’s Top 50 Kids Books (2022), and was included on Bank Street College of Education’s list of Best Children’s Books of the Year (US, 2023).
His sophomore novel, Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell, was published in 2022, followed by his latest work, Wrong Answers Only, in 2024.