Fiona McGregor

Fiona McGregor is an Australian writer and performance artist who was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1965. Her third novel, Indelible Ink, won the 2011 The Age Book of the Year award.[1]

Fiona McGregor
Born1965
Sydney, New South Wales
Occupationwriter and performance artist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian
Notable worksIndelible Ink

McGregor has written for a variety of publications including Sydney Morning Herald, Heat, Meanjin, TLS, The Age, The Monthly, The Saturday Paper and Real Time. Following the publication of her first novel in 1993 she was named one of the inaugural Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists in 1997.[2]

As a performance artist McGregor has toured with You Have the Body, a meditation on unlawful detention, in 2008–09,[3] and she screened her 4-hour 5-minute video Vertigo at the MOP gallery in Sydney in February 2011.[4]

Bibliography

Novels

Short story collection
  • Suck My Toes (1994)

Non-fiction
  • Strange Museums: A Journey Through Poland (2008)
  • ‘’A Novel Idea’’ (2019)

Awards and nominations
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References
  1. "Winning Words", The Age, 27 August 2011
  2. "The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists 2007", Sydney Morning Herald, 2 June 2007
  3. "You Have the Body: You Win the Prize" by James Waites
  4. RealTime Arts, "Vertigo"


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