Michelle Scott Tucker

Michelle Scott Tucker is the author of Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World (Text Publishing 2018) – a biography of the Anglo-Australian colonist who established the Australian wool industry, even though her husband received all the credit. Elizabeth Macarthur was shortlisted for the 2019 NSW State Library Ashurst Business Literature Prize and the 2019 CHASS Australia Book Prize.

Michelle is also the co-writer, with Torres Strait Islander actor, media producer and SBS Board Member Aaron Fa’Aoso, of Aaron’s groundbreaking memoir So Far, So Good (Pantera 2022). Aaron and Michelle also recently wrote a novel for middle-grade readers, set in the Torres Strait and called Spirit of the Crocodile (Allen & Unwin, 2025)

Currently, Michelle is working on a biography of Louisa Lawson (1848-1920), a trail-blazing Australian feminist (forthcoming with Text, 2027). Michelle was awarded a position as a 2024 Visiting Scholar at the State Library of NSW, to work on her Louisa Lawson project. She is also a 2024 recipient of a Creative Australia grant for arts projects, again for the Louisa Lawson project.

Michelle lives and writes in Victoria’s Macedon Ranges, on the unceded lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung people.

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