Andrea Goldsmith is an Australian writer and novelist, known for her 2002 novel The Prosperous Thief.
[2] From 1987 and through the 1990s she taught creative writing at Deakin University, and as of 2021[update] continues to conduct workshops and mentor new novelists.
[4] She also writes literary essays on topics as diverse as Oliver Sacks ("Oliver Sacks: Anthropologist of Mind"), nuclear physics, life-threatening illness ("Chain Reaction") and Jewish Australian identity ("Talmudic Excursions").
She conducts workshops and short courses for fiction writers and mentors new novelists.
[citation needed] As of 2019[update] Goldsmith was living in Clifton Hill, in Melbourne's inner suburbs, in a house she bought with her partner, the poet Dorothy Porter.