Michelle Jager is an Adelaide-based fiction writer, often of the speculative kind. She recently won the Elle Australia 2018 short story competition, placed runner-up in the InkTears' 2018 short story competition, and was short-listed for the Hammond House Short Story Prize. Her work has appeared in a variety of anthologies and magazines including Elle, SQ Mag, Midnight Echo, Hammond House's Leaving anthology, and Glimmer Press' Thrill Me anthology. She has a BA in International Studies from Monash University and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide. She is currently working on a novel.
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'Michelle Jager's beautiful sentences create a compelling picture of the way childhood shapes, and sometimes warps, the adults we become. Vera is a perfect creation, bright, brittle, damaged, and damaging. Perhaps the most frightening aspect of her character is the realisation that, in the right circumstances, any one of us could become Vera. Bird Bones is a mesmerising, dark enchantment of a novel, a dazzling debut from a compelling new voice in Australian literature.' - Carol LeFevre, author of Murmurations
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'Wondrous strange, savage, and sometimes wickedly funny, Bird Bones and its protagonist, the flame-haired Vera, continue to haunt long after reading the final word. Weaving an all-too-human story of love, tragedy and trauma into a dreamlike fable, Michelle Jager's is an assured and powerful new voice in Australian literature.' - Katherine Tamiko Arguile, author of Meshi