Genevieve Gannon

Genevieve Gannon is an author and award-winning journalist based in Sydney. Over her 15-year career she has worked as a reporter in Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney covering crime, health, social affairs and politics. She was the lead court reporter for Australian Associated Press and has been published in most major Australian newspapers. She is presently the senior journalist at The Australian Women's Weekly where she is known for in-depth articles on issues relating to the health, rights and safety of women. She was named Journalist of the Year at the 2019 Mumbrella Publish awards. Her first novel Husband Hunters was published in 2014. She followed this with Chasing Chris Campbell in 2015 and The First Year in 2017. Her break-out release The Mothers, published by Allen and Unwin in 2019, was based on real-life cases of embryo mix-ups in IVF labs, became an Australian best-seller and was published by HarperCollins in the US. Her fifth novel The Gifted Son was published by Allen and Unwin in 2023. Her sixth novel, Inheritance, was published by Pantera Press in 2024.