About

Luke Slattery is an author, journalist, and literary critic. He holds a Doctorate of Creative Arts from the University of Technology, Sydney, and has taught in the university’s schools of communications and architecture (architecture criticism). His journalism and writing have been published in metropolitan media throughout Australia and internationally in The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times, The London Spectator, The Times Literary Supplement, The US Chronicle of Higher Education, Philosophy Now and Antigone Journal. He has served as higher education editor at The Australian, The Age and The Australian Financial Review, and has been the recipient of the Higher Education Journalist of the Year Award, the European Union Journalist Award and the Australian Council's Keesing Writing Fellowship in Paris. He was shortlisted for the 1995 Graham Perkin Journalist of the Year Award.

Mrs. M, published by Fourth Estate, is Slattery's fifth book and his first novel. He is the author of Dating Aphrodite: Modern Adventures in the Ancient World (ABC Books); Reclaiming Epicurus: Could an Ancient Philosophy of Happiness Save the World? (Penguin), Crisis in the Clever Country: Why Our Universities are Failing (with Geoffrey Masien), and The First Dismissal (Penguin). He is working on a book about the Italian Renaissance philosopher Pico della Mirandola.

Photograph by Renee Nowytarger, courtesy The Australian