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Sophie Cunningham is a Melbourne-based writer and editor. She was publisher at McPhee Gribble/Penguin for two years and Trade Publisher at Allen & Unwin for ten, where she was known for innovative fiction and non-fiction.

In 2004, her own first novel, Geography, was published. In 2005 she was an Asialink resident in Sri Lanka, which provided research material for her novel Bird., which follows the life of a singer-actress who became a Buddhist nun. She's working on her third novel, This Devastating Fever, about Leonard Woolf's time as a colonial administrator in Ceylon.. She has also written several pieces of journalism and travel writing.

In 2008 she became the editor of Meanjin and aims to make the literary magazine 'lighter, more fun, but I don't mean lightweight.". She also aims to establish a younger audience for the magazine.

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