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.
