Lindsay Tuggle is a prize winning cross-genre writer. Her debut non-fiction book, The Afterlives of Specimens, was a cover feature in The New York Review of Books and glowingly reviewed in Oxford’s American Literary History. Her poetry collection, Calenture, was one of The Australian’s Books of the Year, and shortlisted for the Association for the Study of Australian Literature’s Mary Gilmore Award and Australian Poetry’s Anne Elder Award. 

Lindsay has been anthologized by both Oxford and Cambridge University Presses. Her work has also featured in Artist Profile, Commonplace,  Cordite,  HEAT, The Hunter Anthology of Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry, Mascara Literary Review, The New York Review of Books, The North American Review, Rabbit Poetry, Red Room Poetry and The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, among others.  

Lindsay has been awarded numerous international grants and residencies, notably the Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress and the Australian Academy of the Humanities Travelling Fellowship. In 2023 Lindsay was a Writer-in-Residence at Château d’Orquevaux in France and 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.