Inga Simpson
Inga Simpson is an award-winning author whose writing focuses on our relationship with the natural world. Her latest novel is called The Thinning.
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Inga Simpson
Inga Simpson began her career as a professional writer and researcher for government before gaining a PhD in creative writing. In 2011, she took part in the Queensland Writers Centre Manuscript Development Program and, as a result, Hachette Australia published her first novel, Mr Wigg, in 2013.
She has since gained a second PhD, in English literature, which examined the history of Australian nature writing.
Inga is the author of The Thinning, Willowman, The Last Woman in the World, Nest, Where the Trees Were, as well as Understory: my life with trees and, for children, The Book of Australian Trees, illustrated by Alicia Rogerson. Inga’s books have all been listed for numerous awards, including the Miles Franklin and Stella Prize.
Inga’s short fiction and essays have appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, Wonderground, Review of Australian Fiction, Griffith Review, Clues, Writing Queensland, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography. She was also the winner of the final Eric Rolls Nature Essay Prize.
Inga was born in central west NSW. After living in Canberra, Brisbane, and the Sunshine Coast hinterland, she has settled on the far south coast of NSW. Her life, writing, and photography centre around the natural world.
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