Mandy Sayer

Mandy Sayer is an award-winning novelist and narrative non-fiction writer, whose work has been published in the U.S., the U.K., Germany, Brazil, China, and Japan.

Sayer’s honours include the Vogel Award (Mood Indigo), the National Biography Award, and the Australian Audio Book of the Year (Dreamtime Alice: A Memoir); the South Australian Premier’s Award for Non-Fiction, and The Age Book of the Year for Non-Fiction (Velocity: A Memoir); and the Davitt Award for Young Adult Fiction (The Night has a Thousand Eyes). In 2021, she was the recipient of the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship, which supported her research and writing of Those Dashing McDonagh Sisters: Australia’s First Female Filmmaking Team, published in 2022. She was a judge of the National Biography Award 2021-23.

Mandy lives in Sydney with her husband, writer Louis Nowra, and their rescue dog, Basil.