Tracy Sorensen

Tracy Sorensen is an Australian novelist, filmmaker and academic.

Career
Sorensen is a tutor and lecturer at Charles Sturt University and has published five academic papers.

In February 2018 her debut novel The Lucky Galah was published through Pan MacMillan. It has been shortlisted and longlisted in multiple awards (see below). It is narrated by a flightless pet galah observing characters from a family's back verandah in a small Western Australian town.

In July 2023 Sorensen's second book The Vitals was published through Pan MacMillan. It deals with her experience of cancer in 2014 from the point of view of her affected abdominal organs.

In August 2019, Sorensen was awarded the Judy Harris Writer in Residence Fellowship at the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre.

Personal life
Sorensen grew up in Carnarvon on the north coast of Western Australia. She currently lives in Bathurst where she is undertaking a PhD. She is researching the role of handicrafts such as crochet in climate change communication in the School of Communication and Creative Industries at Charles Sturt University.

Awards
The Lucky Galah
 * The UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing (2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards) — Shortlisted
 * The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction (2018) — Shortlisted
 * The Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction (2019) — Longlisted
 * Russell Prize (2019) — Shortlisted
 * Miles Franklin Award (2019) — Longlisted