Danielle Clode

Danielle Clode is an Australian author of literary nonfiction, history and children's books. She is an associate professor of creative writing at Flinders University.

Early life and education
Clode was born in Adelaide in 1968 and spent her early years in Port Lincoln, South Australia. She later lived on a boat with her parents travelling around Australia and completing her schooling by correspondence.

Clode received her B.A. at the University of Adelaide in 1989 and her D.Phil. in zoology at the University of Oxford in 1993.

Career
Clode worked at Melbourne University and the Victorian Writers Centre. In 2011, she moved to Flinders University.

She has written reviews for Australian Book Review.

Awards and honors
Clode was a Rhodes Scholar in 1990. She has received the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Nonfiction in 2007 and a Whitley Award for Best Popular Zoology book in 2016.

Clode's 2018 biography of Australian naturalist Edith Coleman, The Wasp and the Orchid, was shortlisted for the 2019 National Biography Award. In Search of the Woman Who Sailed the World was shortlisted for the 2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Nonfiction Award.