Maggie Alderson

Maggie Alderson is an Australian author, editor and journalist.

She was born in London, England in 1959 and was brought up in Staffordshire.

She was educated at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where she gained an MA in Art History.

She has worked on nine magazines, editing four of them, including British ELLE – and two newspapers (Sydney Morning Herald in Australia and The Times in the UK) For many years she covered the fashion show in Paris, London and Milan.

She has published six bestselling novels and four collections of her columns from Good Weekend magazine. She co-edited two books of short stories Girls Night In and Ladies Night in aid of the charity War Child, and In Bed With, a collection of erotic short stories by well-known female writers including Fay Weldon, Joanne Harris, Ali Smith., Esther Freud and Justine Picardie.

She is married and has one daughter.