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, shortlisted for Australian Poetry’s Anne Elder Award and the Association for the Study of Australian Literature’s Mary Gilmore Award.

Lindsay has been anthologized by both Oxford and Cambridge University Presses. Her work has also featured in Artist Profile, The Best Australian Poems 2025, Commonplace,  Cordite, The Hunter Anthology of Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry, Mascara Literary Review, The New York Review of Books, The North American Review, Red Room Poetry and The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, among others.  

Lindsay has been awarded numerous 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 Bundanon Trust in the Shoalhaven of Australia.   

Lindsay grew up in Kentucky before relocating to Australia, where she attained a PhD in Literature 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.