Chris Womersley

Chris Womersley is a writer of fiction, reviews and essays.

His work has appeared in Granta, Best Australian Stories 2006 and 2010, The Griffith Review, The Monthly and The Age.

In 2007 one of his short stories won the Josephine Ulrick Prize for Literature.

He won the 2008 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction for his novel The Low Road.

His second novel Bereft was short-listed for both the Miles Franklin Award and the Australian Society of Literature Gold Medal and won the Indie Award for Best Fiction.