Madeleine Watts

Madeleine Watts grew up in Sydney, Australia, and currently lives in New York. She has an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, and her fiction has been published The White Review & The Lifted Brow . Her novella Afraid of Waking It was awarded the Griffith Review Novella Prize. Her debut novel The Inland Sea was shortlisted for the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing. Her non-fiction has appeared The Believer , Los Angeles Review of...See more

Madeleine Watts grew up in Sydney, Australia, and currently lives in New York. She has an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, and her fiction has been published The White Review & The Lifted Brow . Her novella Afraid of Waking It was awarded the Griffith Review Novella Prize. Her debut novel The Inland Sea was shortlisted for the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing. Her non-fiction has appeared The Believer , Los Angeles Review of Books , and Literary Hub . See less