Toni Jordan

Toni Jordan is a Melbourne-based novelist best known for her debut novel Addition, an international bestseller long listed for the Miles Franklin Award. Addition was made into a feature film in 2024 starring Teressa Palmer and Joe Dempsie.
In 2017 her fourth book, Our Tiny Useless Hearts, was shortlisted for the Voss Literary Prize. Her novel Nine Days was named the Indie Book of the Year by the Australian Booksellers in 2013. Her most recent novel Prettier if she Smiled More was called 'sharp-eyed, engaging, endearing and very funny'.
In 2022, she released Dinner with Schnables, and in 2023 Prettier if she Smiled More, two novels which followed the Schnable family.
She currently teaches at the Faber Academy.