Laura Jean McKay

Laura Jean McKay

Laura Jean McKay is the author of The Animals in That Country (Scribe 2020) - winner of the prestigious Arthur C Clarke Award, The Victorian Prize for Literature, the ABIA Small Publishers Adult Book of the Year and co-winner of the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel 2021.  

Laura is also the author of Holiday in Cambodia and her latest collection is Gunflower (Scribe 2023), shortlisted for the 2024 Queensland Literary Awards and named one of The Guardian’s best books of 2023. An Adjunct Lecturer in Creative Writing at Massey University, she was awarded the 2022 NZSA Waitangi Day Literary Honours. Laura is the 2025 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Fellow.