ABOUT

​​Vicki Hastrich is a Sydney writer. Her two novels, Swimming with the Jellyfish(2001) and The Great Arch (2008) were followed by the memoir Night Fishing: Stingrays, Goya and the singular life (2019). Writing in the Times Literary Supplement, critic Beejay Silcox has called Night Fishing 'the literary equivalent of a glass-bottomed boat, a frame for wonderment'. Her 2025 biography The Last Days of Zane Grey examines the life of the American western writer, celebrity and big game-fisherman via the untold story of Zane Grey's two trips to Australia in the 1930s.