Lili Wilkinson

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Lili Wilkinson (born 7 April 1981) is an Australian author. She has also written for several publications, including The Age, and managed insideadog.com.au, a website for teenagers about books, as part of her role at the Centre For Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria until January 2011.

Wilkinson was born in Melbourne, the daughter of children's author, Carole Wilkinson, and film and television sound recordist, John Wilkinson. She attended Spensley Street Primary School and Mac.Robertson Girls' High School,^[1] and has referred to her high school self as "a bit of a nerd". Heavily involved in drama, in Year 7 she played Aphrodite in a musical version of the Greek epic Odyssey.

Wilkinson has spoken of her love for the work of Diana Wynne Jones, David Almond and Lewis Carroll in interviews. She has also revealed that Shaun Tan is her favourite illustrator. She has been quoted as saying: "My favourite books would be Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll. Oh, and Love That Dog by Sharon Creech. And The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt. Do I have to stop there?"^[2]

In 2015, Wilkinson completed a PhD in Writing which examined the influence of young adult fiction on the politicisation of teenagers.^[3][4]

• Joan of Arc: The Story of Jehanne Darc (2006)
• Scatterheart (2007)
• The Not-Quite Perfect Boyfriend (2008)
• Pink
• Angel Fish (2009)
• Pocketful of eyes (2011)
• Love-shy (2012)
• The Zigzag Effect (2013)
• Green Valentine (2015)
• The Boundless Sublime (2016)
• After the Lights Go Out (2018)
• The Erasure Initiative (2020)
• A Hunger of Thorns (2023)

• Hodgepodge: How to Make a Pet Monster 1 (2020)
• Flummox: How to Make a Pet Monster 2 (2021)
• Smidgen: How to Make a Pet Monster 3 (2022)

• That Christmas Feeling (2017)
• Clancy the Quokka (2020)

• Short (as editor) (2008)

• "The Babysitter" in Trust Me (edited by Paul Collins) (2008)
• "The Moth-er" in Short and Scary (edited by Karen Tayleur) (2010)
• "Oona Underground" in Begin, End, Begin: A LoveOzYA Anthology (edited by Danielle Binks) (2017)
• "If the Shoe Fits" in Everything Under the Moon: Fairy Tales in a Queerer Light (edited by Michael Earp) (2023)

• "Fantastic Worlds" & "In Defense of Pink Books" in Right Book Right Time (Agnes Nieuwenhuizen) (2007)

• 2020 Aurealis Award for Best Children's Fiction, shortlisted for Hodgepodge: How to Make a Pet Monster^[5]
• 2020 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Novel, winner for The Erasure Initiative^[5]
• 2021 Griffith University Young Adult Book Award, Queensland Literary Awards, shortlisted for The Erasure Initiative^[6]
• 2024 Victorian Premier's Prize for Writing for Young Adults, winner for A Hunger of Thorns^[7]
• 2024 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction, shortlisted for A Hunger of Thorns^[8]

• Official website
• Profile at Allen & Unwin