Draft:Carly-Jay Metcalfe

Carly-Jay Metcalfe (born 1977) is a writer of memoir, poetry, and literary fiction from Queensland, Australia. Metcalfe was born with Cystic Fibrosis. She had a double lung transplant at the age of 21, and survived a rare cancer at the age of 30.

Her memoir Breath was published by University of Queensland Press in 2024. It has received widespread critical acclaim from noted literary critics and writers such as Caroline Overington (The Australian), Cass Moriarty , Fiona Wright , and others.

She has spoken and written on her life with Cystic Fibrosis, advocacy of organ donation and transplantation, and the need to have more honest conversations about death. Metcalfe delivered a TED-X talk in 2014. Her views on these topics have garnered frequent and widespread national media attention.