Jessica Au

Jessica Au is a writer based in Melbourne. She has worked as deputy editor at the quarterly journal Meanjin and as a fact-checker for Aeon magazine. Her novel, Cold Enough for Snow (2022), is the inaugural winner of The Novel Prize and was published by Giramondo, New Directions and Fitzcarraldo Editions, with translation in eighteen languages. It went on to win the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Victorian Prize for Literature and The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, and was a finalist for nine other literary awards, including the Dublin Literary Award.