Margaret Merrilees

Margaret Merrilees is the author of two novels, The First Week and Big Rough Stones, and two collections of Fables Queer & Familiar (illustrated by Chia Moan). The First Week won the Adelaide Festival Unpublished Manuscript Award and was shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis Award and a NSW Premier's Literary Award. Her idiosyncratic essays, which combine memoir, history and social commentary, have appeared in Meanjin, Island, Wet Ink, Griffith Review and elsewhere. She lives in Adelaide, Kaurna Yerta.