Verity Borthwick has been published in The Best Australian Stories, Meanjin, Island, The Furphy Anthology, The UTS Writers’ Anthology, Aurealis, Science Write Now and Vestal Review. She was the overall UTS 2022 Anthology Award winner and has been shortlisted for the Island Nonfiction Prize, the Furphy Literary Award and the Alan Marshall Short Story Award. When she is not writing, Verity works as a freelance editor and takes care of her two sons. She completed a Master of Arts in Creative Writing at UTS in 2021 and comes to writing from a background in Geology.
