Tracy Farr

Tracy Farr is a writer who used to be a scientist. She has two novels – The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt (love, loss, electronic music) and The Hope Fault (family, anxiety, geology) – out in the world. Her third novel, Wonderland, won the 2024 NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize, and will be published by The Cuba Press in 2025. Tracy is co-curator, with Melbourne writer Jenny Ackland, of live literary series Bad Diaries Salon and its sister project Bad Diaries Podcast. Her manuscript Wonderland won the New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi O Aotearoa (PEN NZ Inc) Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize. She lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington.