About Hoa Pham

Hoa Pham is the author of six books and two plays. Her novel Vixen was awarded the Best Young Writer award by the Sydney Morning Herald in 2000, and The Other Shore won the Viva La Novella Prize in 2014. Her play Silence was on the VCE Drama list in 2010.

She is also the founder of Peril Magazine, an Asian-Australian online arts and culture magazine. Hoa has received funding from the Australia Council of the Arts numerous times. She has been on an Asialink residency in Vietnam, and fellowships at the Tyrone Guthrie centre and the Goethe Institute Berlin. She has completed her doctorate in creative arts and also holds master's degrees in creative writing and psychology.

She lives in Melbourne with her partner, their two children, and a Shiba Inu who tolerates their company.