Collection: Natalie Scott

Born and educated in Sydney, Natalie Scott was a freelance writer before her acclaimed novels, short stories, non-fiction, books for children and audiobooks were published internationally.

A columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian, she also wrote for television and radio and has contributed to many literary magazines, including The Griffith Review, Southerly, Westerly and Meanjin and ran courses in creative writing at both NSW and Macquarie Universities.

Her first novel, Wherever We Step the Land is Mined, published in Australia, the UK and the USA in 1980, is a penetrating study of a woman coming to terms with surviving on her own. Her second, The Glasshouse examines the anguish of debilitating old age and the guilt and trauma suffered by those who make selfish choices.

Her children’s books were published in Australia and the US. 

In her collections, Eating Out and Eating Out Again, she created an array of characters from all walks of life, united by the common human need for sustenance. Eating Out and Other Stories (read by Ruth Cracknell) won the National Library TDK Audio Book Award for Unabridged Fiction and The Women Writers Biannual Fiction Award. Ruth Cracknell also recorded The Glass House for the ABC.

Her latest short story collection, Wobbly Truths takes the reader into territory that reveals the inner lives of people on the margins of society; young, old, rich and poor victims of fate or circumstances who have suffered life-changing and wobbly events through no fault of their own.

Photo of Natalie Scott: Julie Adams