Tegan Bennett Daylight

Tegan Bennett Daylight
Born	Tegan Bennett 1969 (age 54–55) Sydney, New South Wales
Occupation(s)	Author, Teacher and Critic
Spouse	Russell Daylight
Children	Alice and Patrick Daylight
Website	https://teganbennettdaylight.com/

Tegan Bennett Daylight (born 1969, in Sydney) is an Australian writer of novels and short stories. She is best known as a fiction writer, teacher and critic, publishing both books of non-fiction and numerous short stories. She has also written several books for children and teenagers. She is the author of Bombora (1996), What Falls Away (2001) and Safety (2006). Bombora was short-listed for the Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the Kathleen Mitchell Award. In 2002, she was named one of The Sydney Morning Herald’s “Best Young Australian Novelists”. Her latest book, the story collection Six Bedrooms, was published by Vintage in 2015. It was shortlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize. Daylight also works as an English lecturer at Charles Sturt University in New South Wales.

Having moved from Sydney, she now lives in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains with her husband Russell Daylight and their two children Alice and Patrick.

Publications

Novels

• Bombora (1996)
• What Falls Away (2001)
• Safety (2006)

Short stories

• Six Bedrooms (2015)

Awards and honours

• The Stella Interview - The Stella Price (2016)
• Stella Prize Shortlist (2016)
• The Saturday Paper's Books of the Year (2015)

External links

• www.teganbennettdaylight.com - Author website
• Safety - Tegan Bennett Daylight - at Random House
• Sydney Morning Herald's review of Safety
• Bulletin Book Reviews' review of Safety