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Laura Elvery
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Laura Elvery

Biography

Laura Elvery is a writer from Brisbane. She has a PhD in Creative Writing and Literary Studies. Her work has been published in Overland, Griffith Review, Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, Island and The Big Issue. She has won the Josephine Ulrick Prize for Literature, the Margaret River Short Story Competition, the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize and the Fair Australia Prize for Fiction. In 2018 Laura’s first collection of short stories, Trick of the Light, was a finalist in the Queensland Literary Awards. Laura’s latest short story collection, Ordinary Matter, won the 2021 Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection and was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance and the 2022 Barbara Jefferis Award.