Madeleine Watts grew up in Sydney, Australia and has lived in New York since 2013. She has an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University, and her fiction has been published in The White Review and The Lifted Brow. Her novella, Afraid of Waking It was awarded the 2015 Griffith Review Novella Prize. Her non-fiction has appeared in The Believer, Lithub and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her first novel, The Inland Sea, was published in the UK by Pushkin Press in 2020, and in the US by Catapult in January 2021.
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