Liz Evans is an award-winning British writer, journalist, author and novelist, currently based in lutruwita/Tasmania. She spent the 1990s as a music journalist in London and published two books on women and rock culture for Pandora/HarperCollins before training as a psychotherapist. Since moving to Australia, she has continued to write for a wide range of titles, including Womankind, Island Literary Journal, TasWeekend, Dumbo Feather, Lunch Lady, The Age and The Guardian, among others. Her debut novel, Catherine Wheel (Ultimo Press, 2024), was completed for her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Tasmania where she has taught English & Writing and Media units and is now an Adjunct Researcher. Her fiction has been awarded two fellowships from Varuna as well as the Katherine Susan Prichard Centre, and an Educational Residency with Arts Tasmania.

Liz is represented by Curtis Brown and is currently working on her second novel about women in the rock industry for Ultimo Press. She was a judge for the 2025 Tasmanian Writers’ Prize, is a regular cultural commentator on ABC Radio and a literary critic for The Conversation.