Libby Sommer, Author at FemAsia Magazine

Libby Sommer

Libby Sommer is an Australian award-winning author of My Year With Sammy (2015), The Crystal Ballroom (2017), The Usual Story (2018), Stories from Bondi (2019), Lost In Cooper Park (2020). Her first poetry collection, The Cellist, a Bellydancer & Other Distractions was published by Ginninderra Press in June 2022. Her second poetry collection, Flat White, One Sugar will be released in 2024. Her debut novel, My Year With Sammy was Pick of the Week, Sydney Morning Herald and winner of the Society of Women Writers Fiction Book Award 2016. She is a regular contributor of stories and poems to literary magazines including The Canberra Times, Overland and Quadrant.

Fictional Arts·Literature·Poetry

Finding the Bliss

It was a summer, Mason knew, when things were suddenly gone. In the midst of a drought, hundreds of thousands of dead fish in the Murray Basin and no one knew why. Mass fish kill, they called it. A third of Australia’s

by Libby Sommer

Fictional Arts

Reading the Signs

Down the road from Monique Barnes’ apartment block was a tennis club at the base of a rainforest. From her balcony she could see the coaches on the court, hear the thwack of the tennis balls as they rallied with their

by Libby Sommer

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Libby Sommer

Finding the Bliss

Reading the Signs