Writer | Ambergris

Erin Hortle is a writer of fiction and essay. The majority of her work is ocean facing, and explores the ways in which experimental approaches to writing might facilitate new ways of imagining the human's relationship with the more than human world, with a distinctly feminist bent.

Her short fiction and essays have been published in a range of Tasmanian and Australian publications.

The Octopus and I, her debut novel was published Allen & Unwin in 2020 and was shortlisted for UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing and longlisted for the Voss Literary Prize and Tasmanian Book Prize.

Her second novel will be published by Simon and Schuster in 2025.