Hilary McPhee

Hilary Jane McPhee AO (born 1941) is an Australian writer and editor.

She was a founding director, with Diana Gribble, of McPhee Gribble Publishers, 1975–89, and Chair of the Australia Council for the Arts and of the Major Organizations Board 1994-7, a founding director and sometime editor of online political newsletter NewMatilda.com.

From 2006-10 she was living and working between the Middle East and Italy, writing a book about the region and articles about matching philanthropic initiatives to the needs of young people.

She annotated and edited film maker Tim Burstall's diaries from the early 1950s, published by MUP as Memoirs of a Young Bastard: the Diaries of Tim Burstall.

In 1976 she married publisher, John Michie with whom she has a son, James.