Sophie Cunningham
Editor of Meanjin
Sophie Cunningham is editor of the respected Australian literary magazine, Meanjin, and a writer of fiction, non-fiction, journalism and screenplays.
Sophie's background encompasses 15 years in Australian publishing, first as an editor at McPhee and McPhee Gribble/Penguin then as a publisher of innovative fiction and non-fiction for McPhee Gribble/Penguin and Allen & Unwin.
She then spent a period as a journalist and writer. Her journalism includes travel writing, cultural analysis and writing on Buddhism and television.
To date, many of her travel-related articles have focused on India, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
Her feature writing topics vary widely, from Buddhism to television, travel and sex. From 2002 to 2005, Sophie wrote the Couch Life column for the television section of The Age.
Sophie's first novel, Geography, was released in 2004, her second, Bird, was published recently and she is now embarking upon a third, This Devastating Fever, based on the early years of the relationship between Leonard and Virginia Woolf.
