Ashley Kalagian Blunt
Ashley Kalagian Blunt, bestselling author of Dark Mode, was shortlisted for the 2024 Ned Kelly Awards Best Crime Fiction. Her latest thriller is Cold Truth.
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Ashley Kalagian Blunt
Ashley Kalagian Blunt writes to expose the myriad ways our technology makes us vulnerable. She is the number one bestselling author of Dark Mode, a psychological thriller published in multiple territories and languages. Dark Mode was shortlisted for the 2024 ABIA General Fiction Book of the Year, the Ned Kelly Awards for Best Crime Fiction, and the Danger Award for Debut Fiction and was voted number 20 in the Better Reading Top 100. Her latest thriller is Cold Truth.
Her earlier books are How to Be Australian, a memoir, and My Name Is Revenge, collected fiction and essays, which was a finalist in the 2018 Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award and longlisted for the 2020 Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards. Her writing appears in the Sydney Morning Herald, Overland, Griffith Review, Sydney Review of Books, Australian Book Review, Kill Your Darlings and more.
Ashley co-hosts James and Ashley Stay at Home, a podcast about writing, creativity and health, and has taught writing workshops across Australia. Originally from Winnipeg, Canada, she lived and worked in South Korea, Peru and Mexico before moving to Gadigal land.
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