

About
Christie Nieman is an award-winning Australian novelist and essayist, living on Dja Dja Wurrung country. Her novel, Where We Begin, was shortlisted for both the NSW and Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, and won the Davitt Award for best Young Adult Crime Novel and the Children’s Book Council of Australia Honour Book of the Year Award. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in Meanjin, Overland, the Sydney Review of Books, among others, as well as in a number of anthologies. She has a PhD in Creative Writing and Ecocriticism and was the 2024-25 State Library of Victoria Marion Orme Page Creative Fellow.

Latest Writing





Christie Nieman’s short fiction and essays cover wide ground. She has written on women, ecology, fertility, writing, fairytales, evolution, public libraries and social justice, human exceptionalism and the environment …
Where We Begin, Christie Nieman
“I’m a local now. That’s what they tell me, now that I have someone in the ground … “
When The Clay Has You, Christie Nieman
About
Christie Nieman is the author of a number of novels and the co-editor of three anthologies. She lives on Dja Dja Wurrung Country.
Get In Touch
- Facebook: Christie Nieman – Author
- Instagram: @christie.nieman
- Twitter: @Christie_Nieman
- e: niemanchristie at gmail.com
