Fiona Kelly McGregor

Fiona Kelly McGregor is an Australian writer, performance artist, and art critic whose third novel, Indelible Ink, won the 2011 The Age Book of the Year Award.

Early life and education McGregor was born in Sydney, New South Wales.

Career McGregor has written for a variety of publications including The Sydney Morning Herald, HEAT, Sydney Review of Books, Meanjin, The Times Literary Supplement, Art Monthly, The Monthly, The Saturday Paper and RealTime. In 2020 they began publishing under their full name, Fiona Kelly McGregor.

Following the publication of their first two books in 1993 and 1994, McGregor was named one of the inaugural Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists in 1997. Since then, McGregor has won and been shortlisted for multiple awards for short stories, novels and essays.

As a performance artist McGregor toured with You Have the Body, a meditation on unlawful detention, in 2008–09, and she screened her 4-hour video Vertigo at the MOP gallery in Sydney in February 2011. In November 2011, she presented a solo show at Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney, entitled Water Series. McGregor's fourth book, Strange Museums, is a travel memoir about a performance art tour McGregor undertook through Poland in 2006.

Awards and nominations 1992 winner — John Morrison VFAW short story prize — "Dirt" 1992 shortlisted The Australian/Vogel Literary Award (for an unpublished manuscript) — Au Pair ' 2022 shortlisted Woollahra Digital Literary Award — non-fiction — Acts of Avoidance 2023 shortlisted Miles Franklin Award — Iris 2023 shortlisted ARA Historical Novel Award 2023 shorlisted Voss Literary Prize

Selected works Novels Au Pair (1993) Chemical Palace (2002) Indelible Ink (2010) Iris (2022) The Trap (2026)

Short story collections Suck My Toes (1994)

Non-fiction Strange Museums: A Journey Through Poland (2008) (travel memoir, performance art critique) A Novel Idea (2019) (photoessay)Buried Not Dead'' (2021) (essay collection)