Madeleine Watts is the author of The Inland Sea, which was shortlisted for the 2021 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing. Her novella, Afraid of Waking It, was awarded the Griffith Review Novella Prize. Her nonfiction has been published extensively in Harper's Magazine, The Guardian, The Believer, The Paris Review, Literary Hub, and Astra Magazine. She has an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. Born in Sydney, Australia, she lives between New York and Berlin.