Madeleine D'Este

Originally from Tasmania, Madeleine D’Este now lives in inner-city Melbourne surrounded by books.

After studying law and seeing the world, now she writes speculative fiction and mysteries at night — female-led, of course.

In 2019, her supernatural mystery novel, The Flower and The Serpent, was nominated for the Australian Shadow Award’s Best Novel. Her Australian gothic novella, Radcliffe (Deadset Press), received a 2023 Aurealis Award nomination for Best Horror Novella.

When not writing, Madeleine enjoys podcasts, knitting, forteana, indie films, kettle bells and likes her coffee as ‘black as midnight on a moonless night.’