Tracy Sorensen is an Australian novelist, filmmaker and academic.

Career

Sorensen is a tutor and lecturer at

Charles Sturt University Charles Sturt University is an Australian multi-campus public university located in New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory and Victoria. Established in 1989, it was named in honour of Captain Charles Napier Sturt, a British explorer w ...

and has published five academic papers. In February 2018 her debut novel '' The Lucky Galah'' was published through

Pan MacMillan Pan Books is a publishing imprint (trade name), imprint that first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the United Kingdom, British-based Macmillan Publishers, owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group of Germany. Pan Books b ...

. It has been shortlisted and longlisted in multiple awards (see below). It is narrated by a flightless pet galah observing characters from a family's back verandah in a small Western Australian town. In July 2023 Sorensen's second book ''The Vitals'' was published through

. It deals with her experience of cancer in 2014 from the point of view of her affected abdominal organs. In August 2019, Sorensen was awarded the Judy Harris Writer in Residence Fellowship at the

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one of the country's si ...

Charles Perkins Centre The Charles Perkins Centre (CPC) is an Australian medical research institute, clinic and education hub that primarily focuses on diabetes, cardiovascular disease and obesity, as well as other related conditions. The centre is affiliated with the ...

Personal life

Sorensen grew up in Carnarvon on the north coast of Western Australia. She currently lives in Bathurst where she is undertaking a PhD. She is researching the role of handicrafts such as crochet in climate change communication in the School of Communication and Creative Industries at

Bibliography

Novels *'' The Lucky Galah'' (

, 2018) *''The Vitals'' (Pan MacMillan, 2023)

Awards

''The Lucky Galah'' * The UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing ( 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards) — Shortlisted * The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction (2018) — Shortlisted * The Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction (2019) — Longlisted *

Russell Prize The Russell Prize (Russell Prize for Humour Writing) is an Australian literary prize awarded every second year by the State Library of New South Wales to a humorous book. It was established in 2014 through a donation by Peter Wentworth Russell, "a ...

(2019) — Shortlisted *

Miles Franklin Award The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879–195 ...

(2019) — Longlisted

References

External links

Sorensen's blog ''The Squawkin Galah''
21st-century Australian novelists 21st-century Australian women writers Australian women novelists Writers from Western Australia Academic staff of Charles Sturt University Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{Australia-writer-stub