Laura Elizabeth Woollett is the author of the novels West Girls and Beautiful Revolutionary, as well as the short story collection The Love of a Bad Man. West Girls was longlisted for the 2024 Stella Prize and the South Australian Literary Award for Fiction. Laura was the City of Melbourne’s 2020 Boyd Garret writer-in-residence and will be a 2025 writer-in-residence at the Keesing Studio in Paris. Laura lives in Melbourne, Australia.