![]() ![]() ![]() McKay's first book, Holiday in Cambodia, a short story collection, was published by Black Inc. She has said that Janet Frame is one of her writing influences: "I still turn to Frame when I've forgotten how to flip the world over and look at it from a new perspective". Since June 2019 McKay has been a lecturer in creative writing at Massey University in New Zealand. She completed a PhD at the University of Melbourne, where she wrote The Animals in that Country. She worked at international aid organisations in Cambodia after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, and subsequently wrote Holiday in Cambodia while completing an MA in creative writing at the University of Melbourne. She grew up on a horse farm in Sale, in the Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria. McKay was born in Orbost, Australia, in 1978. Clarke Award for her novel The Animals in That Country. In 2021 she won the Victorian Prize for Literature and the Arthur C. Laura Jean McKay (born 1978) is an Australian author and creative writing lecturer. ![]()
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