Tegan Bennett Daylight


Tegan Bennett Daylight is an Australian writer of novels and short stories.
She is the author of Bombora, What Falls Away and Safety. 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.

Early life

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

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.