Alexandra Collier is an award-winning Melbourne writer who has written for theatre, screen and print. Her memoir Inconceivable was recently published by Hachette. She has appeared on various panels, storytelling and speaking events for the Wheeler Centre, Generation Women, the Australian Consulate in New York and the Brisbane Writers Festival. Alexandra lived and worked in New York for a decade where her plays have been produced Off Broadway, including Triplight, a new musical written with ARIA award-winning composer Greta Gertler Gold, at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater. In Australia, her plays have been produced and developed at Sydney Theatre Company, La Mama and the Hayes. She has written for The Guardian, The Age/Sydney Morning Herald, Harper’s Bazaar and Mamamia. She is a MacDowell fellow, a winner of the RE Ross Trust Playwrights Award and a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She is writing on a new TV detective series for the BBC/ABC. www.alexandracollier.com

PRAISE FOR INCONCEIVABLE

“An inspiring and necessary book that challenges the narratives we set for our lives and reveals the beauty beyond them.”
CLEMENTINE FORD

“An important story, fantastically told.”
CELIA PACQUOLA

“An assured first book that walks the fine line between lightness and gravity.”
Sydney Morning Herald/The Age – Non Fiction Pick of the Week

“Inspiring, challenging and often very funny, Inconceivable is an important read about one woman’s choice to become a parent.”
The Australian

“Powerful, singular story I rejoiced in reading. Finally, here is a story about a woman who has created her own happily ever after, without submitting to traditional forms of family-building. Collier writes movingly of the judgement single women face in society. Necessary, immersive read.”
JESSIE TU

“Bravely rewrites the script about how to make a family.”
GINA RUSHTON (The Most Important Job in the World)

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