About Meg

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Meg Mundell is a writer and social researcher. Born and raised in Aotearoa New Zealand, she lives in Melbourne/Narrm with her partner and son.

Her second novel The Trespassers (UQP, 2019) won the 2020 Davitt Award for Best Adult Crime Novel and was shortlisted for the Voss Literary Prize, an Aurealis Award (Best Adult Novel), and a Norma K. Hemming Award. The book received critical acclaim and was optioned for TV. Her first novel Black Glass (Scribe, 2011) gained multiple prize shortlistings, while her digital short story collection Things I Did for Money (Scribe, 2013) has been used internationally as a university teaching text.

Meg also conceived and edited We Are Here: Stories of Home, Place & Belonging (Affirm Press, 2019), a world-first collection of true stories written by people who have experienced homelessness. She’s now working on her next book, Home Truths: Changing Our Minds on Homelessness, a work of creative nonfiction. A deep-dive investigation of public attitudes towards homelessness, the book also explores creative tactics to combat the blame, stigma and hate directed at the people who experience it.

As head of one-woman communications and research consultancy Hatch Insight, Meg works across the not-for-profit, government and academic sectors. She’s a casual Senior Research Fellow with HOME Research Centre (Deakin University) and a Board Member with the Medical Board of Australia. Official bits of paper: PhD (creative arts), Masters (creative writing), Bachelor of Arts (psychology/philosophy) and Diploma (professional writing and editing). Past day jobs: journalist, policy analyst, nightclub DJ, ventriloquist’s assistant and deputy editor of The Big Issue Australia.

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