About

Sophie Cunningham

Sophie Cunningham is a non-fiction writer and novelist with a passion for trees, walking and broader environmental issues.

Currently, Sophie is the Miegunyah Writers Fellowship recipient and drawing on the Russell and Mab Grimwade archives to write about eucalyptus; and she is working on a non-fiction book The Time Machines: In search of ten of Australia’s oldest and most remote trees.

A Member of the Order of Australia for her contributions to literature, Sophie is an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University in the School Media and Communication in the College of Design and Social Context. She sits on the Board of University of Queensland Press and Australian Society of Authors. Her next novel, This Devastating Fever, is scheduled for release at the end of 2022.

Sophie was a co-founder of The Stella Prize, former editor of Meanjin (2008 – 2011) and former chair of the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts (2011 – 2014). She has written for a range of magazines, including Griffith Review and The Monthly.

Author of six books, Sophie is also a teacher, mentor, climate change activist, wildlife advocate and every day she posts an image of a tree on her Instagram @sophtreeofday.  

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