This Devastating Fever

About Sophie Cunningham

Sophie Cunningham AM is the author of seven books across multiple fiction and nonfiction children and adults and include City of Trees - Essays on life death and the need for a forest and Melbourne. She is also editor of the collection Fire Flood Plague: Australian writers respond to 2020. Sophie''s former roles include as a book publisher and editor chair of the Literature Board of the Australia Council editor of the literary journal Meanjin and co-founder of The Stella Prize celebrating women''s writing. She is now an adjunct professor at RMIT University''s non/fiction Lab. In 2019 Sophie was made a Member of the Order of Australia for her contributions to literature.