About
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Kirsten Alexander is represented by Gaby Naher at Left Bank Literary. She currently works for the Faber Academy for Writing while researching her fourth novel.
She is the author of Half Moon Lake (Penguin Random House, Aust & NZ, 2019, Lost Boy Found Grand Central/Hachette, US & Canada, 2020); and Riptides (PRH, 2020). Her third novel will be published by Ultimo Press in February 2025.
Kirsten has worked as a book editor, copywriter (inhouse four years for Aesop, also for Crumpler, M.L. Vintage, House + Universe), and article writer (the Age, the Daily Beast, Notebook, the Melbourne Weekly, Atticus Review and others). She’s worked as a reviewer for ABC Radio National’s The Book Show, a magazine section editor, and content manager for several websites. She was founder and editor of three-volume digital journal Open Field.
Kirsten was born in San Francisco, raised in Brisbane, and lives in Melbourne with her two sons.