Margot McGovern is a YA and Horror author based in Adelaide, South Australia.

Margot’s debut YA novel, Neverland (Penguin Random House Aus.), was short-listed for the Text Prize and the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature.

Her second novel, This Stays Between Us, will be published by PRH Aus. in March 2025, and is available for preorder now! 

Her horror fiction appears in the Ausrelais Award-shortlisted anthology, Hometown Haunts: #LoveOzYA Horror Tales (Wakefield Press, 2021) and issues of The Dark.

She holds a creative writing Ph.D. from Flinders University and is a former member of the LoveOzYA committee. Margot is also a workshop presenter, writing mentor and occasional book reviewer. She is represented by Danielle Binks and you can find her on Instagram: @margot.mcgovern.

Margot can be booked for school workshops and events via Becky’s Literary Bookings.