Author/Editor: Carol Lefevre

Carol Lefevre holds both an MA and PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide. She has published two novels. Nights in the Asylum, Picador (UK) and Vintage (Australia) was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, won the 2008 Nita B. Kibble Award for Women Writers and the People’s Choice Award. If You Were Mine was published by Vintage in 2008.

She has published short fiction, journalism, and non-fiction, including a personal essay in the anthology Family Wanted: Adoption stories, edited by Sara Holloway, which was published in the UK by Granta and in the USA by Random House. The non-fiction title Quiet City: Walking in West Terrace Cemetery was published in 2016 by Wakefield Press. In February 2016 Carol was awarded the Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship at the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. She is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide, and a member of the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice.



Carol at the launch of The Happiness Glass