Erin O'Dwyer

In more than 25 years as a journalist, Erin has worked across print, digital, broadcast and publishing media. Her writing has appeared in publications as diverse as The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, Good Weekend, The Saturday Paper, The Guardian, Australian Geographic, Marie Claire and Vogue. She has been a producer for the ABC, an editor for SBS, and her radio documentaries have been broadcast on ABC's Radio National. She has been recognised three times in the Australian UN Media Peace Awards for her social issues journalism, and she is a Walkley Awards finalist. Erin is a passionate mentor and teacher, and has two decades' experience lecturing in journalism at universities including the University of Sydney, UTS, UNSW and QUT. She runs a storytelling consultancy, Good Prose Studios, where she helps clients tell their stories across all mediums – including non-fiction books, memoir, podcast, and documentary films. Erin has identical twin boys and lives on the NSW South Coast.