Laura Elizabeth Woollett is a critic and author of the 2016 short story collection The Love of a Bad Man and the novels Beautiful Revolutionary (2018), The Newcomer (2021), and West Girls (2023). Her books have been listed for numerous awards, including the 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction and the 2024 Stella Prize. Laura was the City of Melbourne’s 2020 Boyd Garret writer-in-residence, a 2020-22 Marten Bequest scholar for prose, and a 2025 Keesing Studio resident at the Cité Internationale Des Arts in Paris. Her nonfiction debut, Hell Days, will be published in September 2026.