Nikki McWatters

Nikki is an Australian-based writer who lives with her family north of Sydney, near the beach. She was shortlisted for a Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Emerging Writer

in 2010. Her memoir, ‘One Way or Another, the story of a girl who loved rock stars’ was released by Black Inc in 2012.

Her first Young Adult novel, Hexenhaus, was published by UQP in 2016 and will be followed by two in that series of books about strong young women in history. Victorieux will be released in 2018 and Systir Saga in 2019.

Nikki has written for the UK Huffington Post, the Sydney Morning Herald and online magazines such as The Hoopla, mamamia and ivillage and was selected to have her fiction piece ‘James Franco’s Smile’ included in the prestigious annual fiction edition of The Big Issue.

Nikki also won the prestigious international Moth Prize for short fiction in 2016.

Nikki is a former actor who now writes full-time.