Laura Jean McKay is the author of The Animals in That Country(Scribe, 2020) and Holiday in Cambodia (Black Inc. 2013), shortlisted for three national book awards in Australia. Laura is a lecturer in creative writing at Massey University, with a PhD from the University of Melbourne focusing on literary animal studies. She is the ‘animal expert’ presenter on ABC Listen’s Animal Sound Safari.
Genres: Literary Fiction, Science Fiction
Laura Jean McKay recommends
Only the Astronauts (2024)
Ceridwen Dovey
"Dovey's greatest book yet. An intergalactic tour de force."
Bad Cree (2023)
Jessica Johns
"At once stunning, terrifying, and deeply affecting, in Bad Cree, the reader is invited to flock with Jessica Johns through soaring prose glistening with the power of family, Cree culture, and togetherness. A novel that haunts; a novel impossible to put down."
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