Karleah Olson is a Perth-based writer and avid reader, and loves to collect books – more than she could possibly read in a lifetime. Karleah has spent the last few years as a PhD candidate at Edith Cowan University, where she is studying Australian Coastal Gothic Literature. Her debut novel, A Wreck of Seabirds, was shortlisted for the 2023 Fogarty Literary Award and is a work of YA fiction inspired by the gothic genre and the West Australian coastal landscape.

Karleah Olson
Books from this author
Awards
Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards Young Adult Book of the Year (Shortlisted 2025)
2023 Fogarty Literary Award (Shortlisted)