Fiona McFarlane (born 1978) is an Australian author, best known for her novel The Night Guest (2013) and her collections of short stories The High Places (2016) and Highway Thirteen (2024).
[2] Her debut novel, The Night Guest, was published in 2013 and is about a retired widow who lives alone and suffers from dementia.
[3] It won the Voss Literary Prize and the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing at the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.
[6] In 2017, McFarlane won the Dylan Thomas Prize for her collection of short stories, The High Places.
McFarlane's writing has also appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, Southerly and The New Yorker.