Margot McGovern is an award-winning author of Young Adult horror. 

Her love letter to ‘90s slashers, This Stays Between Us, won the inaugural John Marsden Prize for Writing for Young Adults in the Victorian Premier’s  Literary Awards and was named the CBCA Shadow Judging Book of the Year Award for Older Readers. It was also shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, the CBCA Awards and the ABIA Awards.

Her work has similarly been a finialist in the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, the Text Prize, the Aurealis Awards, the ITW Thriller Awards and the Australasian Shadows Awards.

Margot lives on Kaurna Yarta (Adelaide) and holds a creative writing PhD from Flinders University.

She is represented by Danielle Binks and can be booked for school workshops and speaking engagements via Becky’s Literary Bookings. 

Margot shares updates about her books and writing on Instagram: @margot.mcgovern.