Laurie Steed is a novelist and short story writer from Perth, Western Australia. His work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published in Best Australian Stories, Award Winning Australian Writing, The Age, Meanjin, Overland, Island, Westerly, and elsewhere. His non-fiction has been published in Australian Book Review, Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, The Big Issue, and The Courier Mail.

He completed his PhD in Creative Writing from The University of Western Australia in 2015. He is the winner of  the 2012 Patricia Hackett Prize for Fiction and the 2021 Henry Handel Richardson Flagship Fellowship for Short Story Writing from Varuna – The Writers’ House, and the recipient of fellowships from The University of Iowa, The Baltic Writing Residency, The Elizabeth Kostova Foundation, and Writers Victoria. His debut novel, You Belong Here, was published in 2018 and shortlisted for the 2018 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards. His second book, Love, Dad: Confessions of An Anxious Father, will be published by Fremantle Press in August 2023. His third book, the short story collection Greater City Shadows, was shortlisted for the 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript and is published by UWA Publishing.