Sally Bothroyd lives in Darwin, Australia. Brunswick Street Blues is her first novel, published in March 2022 (HQ Australia).

Before getting serious about writing novels, she had many jobs, including journalist, festival director, teacher, media monitor, public servant, arts worker, bar tender, book seller, and more. She’s also studied history, and film making. She’s plundered all these experiences in her writing.

She’s been awarded the ASAHQ Prize for an unpublished manuscript (2020), was the runner-up for the CALScribe Award for an unpublished manuscript (2011), and received a HarperCollins Varuna Fellowship (2011).

Her short stories have appeared in Borderlands (a literary journal of NT writing), as well as being shortlisted for a Scarlet Stiletto Award (Sisters In Crime, Australia), the NT Literary Awards (Northern Territory Library), and the Peter Carey Short Story Award (Moorabool Shire, Australia); and longlisted for the Margery Allingham Prize (Crime Writers’ Association, UK), the Bath Flash Fiction Award (UK), and the Furphy Award (Australia).