Laura Elvery

Laura Elvery is an Australian author and winner of the Queensland Literary Awards' Steele Rudd Award for her short story collection Ordinary Matter.

Awards and honours
According to Thuy On for Sydney Review of Books, Ordinary Matter is inspired 'by the twenty times women have been awarded Nobel Prizes for science' and is a work which 'puts micro matter (plutonium, biomolecules, chromosomes, ribosomes, telomeres) into the bigger world of women’s lives as they go about their daily business striving for harmony between responsibility and ambition and carving out their own place in the world.' Ordinary Matter was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards – Queensland Premier’s Award for a work of State Significance and for the 2022 Barbara Jefferis Award.

In 2018, Elvery's first collection of short stories, Trick of the Light, was a finalist in the Queensland Literary Awards. Her single short stories have won the Josephine Ulrick Prize for Literature, the Margaret River Short Story Competition, the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize and the Fair Australia Prize for Fiction.

In 2022, University of Queensland Press announced that they had acquired world rights to Elvery's debut novel, Nightingale.