Personal profile
Biography
Lucy Neave is the author of Believe in Me (UQP, 2021), which was highly commended for the Christina Stead Prize in 2022 and won the ACT Book of the Year in 2023. Her first novel, Who We Were, was published by Text (Melbourne, 2013), and shortlisted for the ACT Book of the Year Award in 2014. She has published in Best Australian Stories 2009 & 2014, and in Australian and American literary journals, including in Overland and Southerly. Her scholarly essays are on fiction writing process, writers' practices and pedagogy. She is the recipient of two Australia Council for the Arts grants, a Varuna Second Book Fellowship, a 2018 Griffith Review novella prize and is a former Fulbright scholar.
Qualifications
BSc (Vet.) (First Class Honours) (USyd)
BVSc (First Class Honours) (USyd)
MFA (Sarah Lawrence)
PhD (ANU)
DCA (WSU)
Research Interests
Fiction writing and the writing process
Contemporary literature
Writing pedagogy
External Scholarly Memberships and Affiliations
Visiting Professor, City University of New York
1 Aug 2024 → 15 Jan 2025
Visiting Scholar, New York University
15 Jul 2019 → 15 Jan 2020
Visiting Scholar, New York University
1 Jan 2015 → 1 Jul 2015
Research student supervision
- Registered to supervise
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Infrastructures of Crisis in Global Twenty-First-Century Literature
Neave, L., 2025, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press Ltd. 208 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Michelle de Kretser wins the Stella Prize with a genre-bending questioning of art and expectation
Neave, L., 23 May 2025Research output: Other contribution
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Truth-telling, originality and shame: your guide to the 2025 Stella shortlist
Neave, L., 2025, The Conversation.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article
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Crisis and critique in Christine Smallwood’s The Life of the Mind (2021)
Neave, L., 24 Jul 2024, In: Textual Practice. 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Transnationalism and the Literary Reception of Australian Women Writers’ Fiction in the US, 2010–2020: Three Case Studies
Neave, L., 2 Jan 2024, In: Journal of Australian Studies. 48, 1, p. 33-47 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access1 Citation (Scopus)
Projects
- 1 Finished
Prizes
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Highly Commended, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, NSW Premier's Literary Awards
Neave, L. (Recipient), 2022
Prize: Prizes and Awards
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Highly Commended, Vice Chancellor's Award for Programs that Enhance Learning
Neave, L. (Recipient), 2025
Prize: Prizes and Awards