Meg McKinlay


Meg McKinlay is a Western Australian writer. She has written a number of books for children and young adults, including How to Make a Bird and A Single Stone. She has won two Prime Minister's Literary Awards and three Crystal Kite Awards.
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Biography

Born Megan McKinlay, she spent her childhood in Bendigo, Victoria. During high school she was an exchange student in Japan. She graduated with a PhD from the University of Western Australia in 2001 for her thesis "Gender and cross-cultural analysis: The novels of Tsushima Yûko 1976–1985". She subsequently lectured at UWA in Australian literature, Japanese and creative writing and, as of 2016 was an honorary research associate of that university.
In 2010 she won a residency in Japan and in 2020 she won a May Gibbs Children's Literature Trust Fellowship. As well as writing for children and young adults, she has published one book of poetry, Cleanskin.
McKinlay currently lives in Fremantle, Western Australia.

Awards

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Selected works

The Truth about Penguins, co-authored with Mark Jackson, 2010Surface Tension, 2011Ten Tiny Things, illustrated by Kyle Hughes-Odgers, 2012A Single Stone, 2015Duck!, illustrated by Nathaniel Eckstrom, 2018Catch a Falling Star, 2019How to Make a Bird, illustrated by Matt Ottley, 2020Bella and the Voyaging House, illustrated by Nicholas Schafer, 2021