Finola Moorhead

Finola Moorhead (born 1947) is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and reviewer. Her topics include women and writing, switching between reality and fiction, with themes of subversion and survival. Moorhead participates in the women's liberation movement, and during the 1980s, she was a radical feminist. As a result of a challenge she wrote a book without male characters. She graduated with a degree in arts.

Early career

Moorhead was employed as a teacher before starting her professional writing career in 1973. As a result, Moorhead wrote her 1987 book Remember the Tarantella. The lesbian fictional novel has a lead character whose name begins with "I" and the other 25 female characters' names begin with a different letter of the alphabet.

Among her other works are the novels A Handwritten Modern Classic (1985), Quilt (1985), Still Murder (1991/2002), Darkness More Visible (2000) and the poetry collection My Voice (2006), and the plays Curtain Raiser, Horses and It Might As Well Be Loneliness. She sent her first story and play off to The Herald Short Story Competition and The Australian National Playwright's Conference Competition, winning first prize for both.

Selected works