About Lyn

Lyn Dickens is an award-winning writer, editor, and academic. Her debut novel Salt Upon the Water has been longlisted for the 2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award and won the 2024 Arts SA Wakefield Press Unpublished Manuscript Award as part of the South Australian Literary Awards.

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Lyn’s writing has been published in Australia, the USA, and the UK, and she is the Co-Founder and Managing Editor of the South Australian-based literary journal The Saltbush Review. She was the 2025 Winner of the Asian Australian Leadership Awards Arts and Culture Category, a 2021 Write It Fellow with Penguin Random House, and a 2022 Editorial Mentee with Liminal and Writers SA. She is currently represented by Alexandra Christie at Curtis Brown Australia.

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Lyn’s writing has received a number of awards. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide and she is a member of the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice. She has a previous doctorate in Sociology from the University of Sydney and she spent a year of research at the University of Cambridge. She has taught creative writing, literature, and social sciences at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Lyn is of mixed heritage and has Peranakan Singaporean Chinese and Anglo Celtic Australian ancestry.