Michelle Cahill

Michelle Cahill is an Indian Australian writer of fiction and poetry. She was awarded the KWS Hilary Mantel International Short Story Prize and the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for New Writing for the short story collection Letter to Pessoa (2016). Her debut novel Daisy & Woolf (2022/2024) gives voice and story to an Anglo-Indian character in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (1925). She has been awarded fellowships at Sangam House, Sanskriti Kendra, Hawthornden Castle, and a Hedberg Residency at the University of Tasmania, as well as grants from the Australia Council, the Copyright Agency, and the Australian Society of Authors. Year: 2022, 2025.