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Mirandi Riwoe

Writer / See Roots



A Brisbane-based writer, also known as MJ Tjia. She has been shortlisted for Overland’s Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize, the Josephine Ulrick Short Story Prize, the Luke Bitmead Bursary and the Stella Prize; and longlisted for the ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize and the CWA (UK) Dagger Awards. Her work has appeared in Review of Australian Fiction, Rex, Peril and Shibboleth and Other Stories. She is the author of a novel, She be Damned, and a novella, The Fish Girl, which won the 2017 Seizure Viva La Novella Prize.

She is the daughter of a Chinese/Indonesian father and Irish/English/Australia mother.


In the Headlines


Sunbirds (2023), by Mirandi Riwoe

Personal Blog / All Things Books
Oct 10, 2023

‘Superstar’ Mirandi Riwoe among Australian fiction acquisitions

Books+Publishing / What Media Says
Mar 17, 2021

The 2018 Stella Prize Shortlist of Six Announced

Daily Review / As Seen On
Mar 08, 2018


Crafted by Mirandi Riwoe


Five Questions with Intan Paramaditha

Peril / What Media Says
Sep 09, 2018

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