Tegan Bennett Daylight

Tegan Bennett Daylight
Born Tegan Bennett
1969 (age 48–49)
Sydney, New South Wales
Occupation Author, Teacher and Critic
Home town Blue Mountains (New South Wales)
Spouse(s) Russell Daylight
Children Alice and Patrick Daylight
Website https://teganbennettdaylight.com/

Tegan Bennett Daylight (born 1969, in Sydney) is an Australian writer of novels and short stories.

She is the author of Bombora (1996), What Falls Away (2001) and Safety (2006). Bombora was short-listed for the Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the Kathleen Mitchell Award. In 2002, she was named one of The Sydney Morning Herald’s “Best Young Australian Novelists”. Her latest book, the story collection Six Bedrooms, was published by Vintage in 2015. It was shortlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize.

Career

Daylight is best known as a fiction writer, teacher and critic, publishing both books of non-fiction and numerous short stories. She has also written several books for children and teenagers.

Novels

  • Boombora (1996)
  • What Falls Away (2001)
  • Safety (2006)

Short stories

  • Six Bedrooms (2015)

Awards and acclamations

  • The Stella Interview - The Stella Price (2016)
  • Stella Prize Shortlist (2016)
  • The Saturday Paper's Books of the Year (2015)

Personal life

Tegan Bennett Daylight works as an English lecturer at Charles Sturt University in New South Wales. Having moved from Sydney, she now lives in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains with her husband Russell Daylight and their two children Alice and Patrick.


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