2025 Story Prize ceremony, Lotos Club, New York, March 25, 2025.
Fiona McFarlane, photo credit Beowulf Sheehan

Fiona
McFarlane

Fiona McFarlane is the author of the novel The Night Guest, which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and a collection of short stories, The High Places, which won the International Dylan Thomas Prize. Her short fiction has been published in the New Yorker, Best Australian Stories and Zoetrope: All-Story. Her most recent novel, The Sun Walks Down, was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize, the Age Book of the Year Award, the ABIA Award for Literary Fiction Book of the Year and the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Born in Sydney, Fiona teaches creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley.

Fiona McFarlane is the author of the novel The Night Guest, which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and a collection of short stories, The High Places, which won the International Dylan Thomas Prize. Her short fiction has been published in the New Yorker, Best Australian Stories and Zoetrope: All-Story. Her most recent novel, The Sun Walks Down, was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize, the Age Book of the Year Award, the ABIA Award for Literary Fiction Book of the Year and the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Born in Sydney, Fiona teaches creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley.

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