Inga Simpson is an Australian novelist and nature writer.
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She began her career as a professional writer for government before gaining a PhD in creative writing. In 2011, she took part in the Queensland Writers Centre Manuscript Development Program and, as a result, Hachette Australia published her first novel, Mr Wigg, in 2013.
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Inga has since gained a second PhD, in English literature, which examined the history of Australian nature writing.
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Her short stories and essays have appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, Wonderground, Review of Australian Fiction, Griffith Review, Clues, Writing Queensland, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography. She was also the winner of the final Eric Rolls Nature Essay Prize.
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Inga was born in central west NSW. After living in Canberra, Brisbane, and the Sunshine Coast hinterland, she has settled on the far south coast of NSW.