ABOUT

Nicole Alexander was raised on her family’s agricultural holding north-west of Moree in northern NSW. During her career she has worked in Australia and Singapore in financial services, fashion, corporate publishing and agriculture. A fourth-generation grazier, Nicole was the business manager of her family’s mixed agricultural property until its sale in 2020. Her family’s long tenure on the land (1893-2020) and their (hoarding) of archives instilled in her a deep love for Australian history and a desire to write about it was born.

Her novels delve into pivotal events in Australian history and frequently grace the Australian Fiction bestseller list. She has been published in territory’s as diverse as Germany and Ukraine and praised for her gritty portrayals of Australian life. Extensive research underpins Nicole’s works. She has walked parts of the Strzelecki Desert, roamed Kakadu National Park tracing the steps of the famous frontiersman and buffalo hunter Carl Warburton, trekked through Gundabooka National Park in western NSW in the footsteps of the original landowners and travelled through the Great Plains of America.

Other works include a poetry collection, Divertissements – Love War Society (Kre8 Publishing 2008). The anthology Dear Mum (Random House Australia 2013) and The Great Australian Writers Collection (Random House Australia 2014). She has contributed to a variety of media including The Sydney Morning Herald, ABC On-line, Sunday Telegraph (Escape Magazine), the Sun-Herald, Elle Magazine Australia and Whimn.com.au

Nicole is a past judge of the ARA Historical Novel Prize Australasia and the Historical Novel Society Colleen McCullough Writer’s Residency, and on occasion takes on the task of keynote speaker with past clients including RaboBank, Landcare, The University of New England and The Community Mutual Group.

Nicole’s debut novel The Bark Cutters was shortlisted for an Australian Book Industry Award and in 2012 she was named Barwon Woman of the Year (NSW Woman of the Year Awards) for services to literature, the promotion of outback Australia and for providing a strong role model for female rural professionals. She has a BA from the University of New England and a Master of Letters in creative writing from Central Queensland University.

Nicole Alexander was raised on her family’s agricultural holding north-west of Moree in northern NSW. During her career she has worked in Australia and Singapore in financial services, fashion, corporate publishing and agriculture. A fourth-generation grazier, Nicole was the business manager of her family’s mixed agricultural property until its sale in 2020. Her family’s long tenure on the land (1893-2020) and their (hoarding) of archives instilled in her a deep love for Australian history and a desire to write about it was born.

Compelling narratives, vivid landscapes and intricate research are the hallmarks of Nicole Alexander’s bestselling historical novels. She has been published in territory’s as diverse as Germany and Ukraine and praised for her gritty portrayals of Australian life. Extensive research underpins Nicole’s works. She has walked parts of the Strzelecki Desert, roamed Kakadu National Park tracing the steps of the famous frontiersman and buffalo hunter Carl Warburton, trekked through Gundabooka National Park in western NSW in the footsteps of the original landowners and travelled through the Great Plains of America.

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Other works include a poetry collection, Divertissements – Love War Society (Kre8 Publishing 2008). The anthology Dear Mum (Random House Australia 2013) and The Great Australian Writers Collection (Random House Australia 2014). She has contributed to a variety of media including The Sydney Morning Herald, ABC On-line, Sunday Telegraph (Escape Magazine), the Sun-Herald, Elle Magazine Australia and Whimn.com.au

Nicole is a past judge of the ARA Historical Novel Prize Australasia and the Historical Novel Society Colleen McCullough Writer’s Residency, and on occasion takes on the task of keynote speaker with past clients including RaboBank, Landcare, The University of New England and The Community Mutual Group.

Nicole’s debut novel The Bark Cutters was shortlisted for an Australian Book Industry Award and in 2012 she was named Barwon Woman of the Year (NSW Woman of the Year Awards) for services to literature, the promotion of outback Australia and for providing a strong role model for female rural professionals. She has a BA from the University of New England and a Master of Letters in creative writing from Central Queensland University.