Meg Caddy

Meg Caddy is a West Australian YA novelist with three published novels. Their first novel, a standalone YA fantasy titled Waer, was shortlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year Award. Their second novel, Devil’s Ballast, was longlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year Award and shortlisted for the Readings Young Adult Book Prize (2020), and their third, Slipping the Noose, was longlisted for both the CBCA Book of the Year Award (2023) and the ARA Historical Novel Prize (2022). Meg identifies as nonbinary and asexual. In 2015 they completed an Honours degree in English/History, writing on the Golden Age of Piracy. They completed their PhD in Creative Writing in 2025. When they're not writing, elbows-deep in archives or chasing around their toddler, Meg plays an unhealthy amount of Dungeons & Dragons.