Mikaella Clements is an Australian writer currently based in Berlin. With her wife Onjuli Datta, she co-wrote THE VIEW WAS EXHAUSTING, published in 2021 by Grand Central Publishing and Headline Review, a Goop and Good Housekeeping book club pick and named "a perfect summer read" by Vogue. The pair’s next novel, FEAST WHILE YOU CAN, comes out 29 October 2024.
Mikaella was shortlisted in the 2019 Galley Beggar Prize and highly commended in the 2019 Bridport Prize, among other honours. Her short stories have been anthologised in Black Inc.’s Best Summer Stories (2018) and Kill Your Darlings’ New Australian Fiction (2019), and her fiction has also been published in Hazlitt, Catapult, Overland Literary Journal and more. Her non-fiction has been published in the New York Times, Guardian, Washington Post, TLS, White Review, LA Review of Books, Griffith Review, and many others. She has a Masters in English Studies from the Freie Universität Berlin.
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She is represented by Andrianna Yeatts (CAA) and Lucy Morris (Curtis Brown).