Lesbian and Queer Women Writers

This is a list of queer Australian women writers which you might like to refer to for reading ideas. If you know of any others, please add them in the contact form below and we’ll update the list.* (Compiled by Jessica White)

Ackroyd Curtis, Martha

Alexander, Mardi

Blackadder, Jesse

Bradstock, Margaret

Clarke, Barbary

Cleven, Vivienne

Cook, Rachel

Connell, Raewyn

Copello, Beatriz

Cunningham, Sophie

Dearborn, Tricia

Dicinoski, Michelle

Fallon, Kathleen Mary

Fonseca, Conchita

Gardiner, Kelly

Gardner, Angela

Gerrish, Carolyn

Goldsmith, Andrea

Glastonbury, Kerri

Hanscombe, Gillian

Harford, Lesbia

Hawthorne, Susan

Howell, Katherine

Jagose, Annamarie

Jackson, Eleanor

Jeffreys, Sheila

Kelly, Jennifer

Langham, Rebecca

Lucashenko, Melissa

McGregor, Fiona

Merrilees, Margaret

Mills, Jennifer

Moorhead, Finola

Murphy, Agnes G b. 1865; d. 1931 Founding member of the Austral Salon; wrote a women’s column for Melbourne Punch as Rhoda
— One woman’s wisdom (1895, novel) – link to SLNSW digital collection

Pausacker, Helen

Porter, Dorothy

Rendle-Short, Francesca

Saint-Claire, C.C.

Saravanamuttu, Dipti

Shotlander, Sandra

Szubanski, Magda

Van Neerven-Currie, Ellen

Wakeling, Louise

Wylie, Ida Alexa Ross

Zajkowski, Maria

* Links are to the biographical entry on the AustLit database where available.

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