Lindsay Tuggle is the author of The Afterlives of Specimens (2017), which was glowingly reviewed in The New York Review of Books (cover feature), Commonplace, and American Literary History (Oxford University Press). Her debut poetry collection, Calenture (2018), was one of The Australian’s Books of the Year (2018), shortlisted for the Association for the Study of Australian Literature’s Mary Gilmore Award and Australian Poetry’s Anne Elder Award. Lindsay’s work has been featured in Commonplace,  Cordite,  HEAT, The Hunter Anthology of Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry, InVisible Culture, Mascara Literary Review, The New York Review of Books, The North American Review, Rabbit Poetry, Red Room Poetry,  The Space Between and The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, among others.  

Lindsay’s work has benefited from international grants and residencies, notably the prestigious Kluge Residential Fellowship at the Library of Congress. She was the first writer to be awarded three Wood Research Grants from the Mütter Museum / College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Research for The Afterlives of Specimens was supported by the Australian Academy of the Humanities. In 2023 Lindsay was a Writer-in-Residence at Château d’Orquevaux in Champagne, France and at Bundanon Trust in the Shoalhaven of Australia.   

A dual citizen of Australia and the US, Lindsay grew up in Alabama, Kentucky, and Kansas before relocating to Sydney, where she attained a PhD in Literature and the Medical Humanities from the University of Sydney. Before her career as a writer, Lindsay was a trauma-informed social worker and an advocate for gender violence survivors. She currently lives and writes on unceded Gundungurra land in the Southern Highlands of Australia.