About Ruby Todd

Ruby Todd is an Australian writer, creative arts researcher, and teacher, with a PhD in Writing & Literature. She is the recipient of the inaugural 2020 Furphy Literary Award, the 2019 Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Contest award for Fiction, and the 2016 AAWP Chapter One Prize. She has completed residencies at The Wheeler Centre and La Trobe University, and her work has appeared in Ploughshares, the Guardian, LitHub, Crazyhorse, Overland and elsewhere. 

Shortlisted for the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, her debut novel, Bright Objects, is out now through Allen & Unwin (ANZ), Simon & Schuster (US), and is forthcoming through Éditions Gallmeister (France).