Angela Meyer

Dr Angela Meyer has worked in the book industry for almost two decades, including as a bookseller, book journalist, Books+Publishing editor, commissioning editor and publisher, freelance book editor, and author. Her debut novel, A Superior Spectre, was shortlisted for an Aurealis Award, the MUD Literary Prize, an Australian Book Industry Award, the Readings Prize for New Australian Writing and a Saltire Literary Society Award (Scotland). She is also the author of a novella, Joan Smokes, which won the inaugural Mslexia Novella Award (UK), and a book of flash fiction, Captives. Her second novel, Moon Sugar, was released in 2022. Her work has been widely published in magazines, journals and newspapers, including Island, Meanjin, The Big Issue, Best Australian Stories and Kill Your Darlings. She has a Doctor of Creative Arts from the Writing and Society Research Group at Western Sydney University.