Annabel Stafford

Annabel Stafford is a former political journalist whose work has appeared in The Australian Financial Review, The Age, Meanjin Online, Griffith Review, The Tablet, The Best Australian Science Writing, The Sydney Morning Herald, and Good Weekend. A prize-winning writer of both fiction and non-fiction, she has also taught in the Creative Writing program at the University of Technology Sydney.

Her debut book, The Wanted and The Unwanted, will be published by Melbourne University Press in 2026.

Annabel now teaches English at a high school in Sydney, where she lives with her partner, three children, and their dog, Wanda.