About

Christie Nieman is an award-winning author, essayist, and playwright. Her novel Where We Begin (Pan Macmillan, 2020) was shortlisted for the Victorian and NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and won the Davitt award for Best YA Novel and a CBCA Honour Book Award. Her short fiction, essays, and other writings appear in various anthologies, journals, and magazines including Meanjin, The Sydney Review of Books, Overland, Canary, The Age, and The Guardian. She has been commissioning editor on a number of anthologies for Pan MacMillan Australia, including the critically acclaimed #MeToo: Stories from the Australian Movement (2019). Her play, Call Me Komachi, received a Green-Room Award nomination, multiple productions, and publication by the Australian Script Centre. She lives and works on Dja Dja Wurrung country.