Inga Simpson is an Australian novelist and nature writer. She began her career as a professional writer for government before gaining two PhD in creative writing and English literature. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, On this Ground: Best Australian Nature Writing, Wonderground, Review of Australian Fiction, Griffith Review, Clues and the Dictionary of Literary Biography. She was also the winner of the final Eric Rolls Nature Essay Prize. Inga was born in central west NSW. After living in Canberra, Brisbane, and the Sunshine Coast hinterland, she has settled on the far south coast of NSW. Her books, for both adults and children, have been longlisted and shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella Prize, the ALS Gold Medal, and Fiction Indie Book Award, among others.
Once We Were Wildlife is her eighth novel and is released in March 2026.
