Brooke Davis is a novelist and the author of the best selling novel Lost & Found (2014).
Davis graduated with an honours degree from the University of Canberra (2004), winning the Allen & Unwin Prize for Prose Fiction, the Verandah Prose Prize, and the University Medal.
During her time there, Davis received the 2009 Bobbie Cullen Memorial Award for Women Writers, the 2009 AAWP Prize for Best Postgraduate Paper, and the 2011 Postgraduate Queensland Writing Prize.
[2] Davis' thesis investigated how the process of grieving is represented in ways that deconstruct and resist the unspoken social mores that govern it.
[3] Described as 'whimsically humorous' and 'a potent mix of childlike wonder and world-weary experience',[4] Davis' book sparked a bidding war at the 2014 London Book Fair, with rights being sold into 25 countries and translated into 20 languages.