Michelle Wright lives in Eltham, Victoria. Her short stories have won and been shortlisted in numerous awards, including The Age Short Story Award, and have been published in Australia and internationally. Her short story collection, Fine, was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Award for an Unpublished Manuscript and published in 2016 by Allen and Unwin. She was recently awarded an Australia Council residency and spent six months in Paris researching her first novel, Small Acts of Defiance, which was published by Allen and Unwin in June 2021 and HarperCollins US in July 2022.
