Laura Jean McKay

 
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Laura Jean McKay is the author of the Animals in That Country (Scribe, 2020) Holiday in Cambodia (Black Inc. 2013), shortlisted for three national book awards in Australia. Her work appears in The Guardian Best Australian Stories and The North American Review. Laura is a lecturer in creative writing at Massey University, with a PhD from the University of Melbourne focusing on literary animal studies. She is the ‘animal expert’ presenter on ABC Listen’s Animal Sound Safari.

Verb Festival 2020 appearances:

8.30pm, Sat 7, Where Love & Art Meet (LitCrawl)

Books