Deborah FitzGerald graduated in 2022 with a Doctor of Arts from the University of Sydney after completing her thesis, In Search of Dorothea: A biography of Australian poet Dorothea Mackellar. During the course of the doctorate, she won the 2021 Dame Leonie Kramer Prize in Australian Poetry and the 2019 Thomas Henry Coulson Scholarship. FitzGerald is also a senior journalist, editor and writer who has worked across major media organisations including the ABC, Channel Nine and News Corp. Her first book, Sophie’s Boys, was published in 2018.
