Finola Moorhead (born 1947) is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, poet, and reviewer.
Her topics include women and writing, switching between reality and fiction,[1] with themes of subversion and survival.
Moorhead began writing for Meanjin, a literary journal, which also involved A.A Phillips and Clem Christesen at the time.
[3] She was a contemporary of the writer Christina Stead, who challenged Moorhead to write a book without male characters.
[8] Among her other works are the novels A Handwritten Modern Classic (1985), Quilt (1985), Still Murder (1991/2002), Darkness More Visible (2000) and the poetry collection My Voice (2006), and the plays Curtain Raiser, Horses and It Might As Well Be Loneliness.