Priya De Vries is an Australian novelist and essayist whose work maps ambition, surveillance, performance, and the quiet bargains people make to belong. Born in Pietermaritzburg to a Dutch–South African father and an Indian mother, she migrated to Perth as a teenager and later studied sociology and creative writing at the University of Western Australia. She completed an MFA at Victoria University of Wellington. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Meanjin, Overland, Griffith Review, and The Saturday Paper, and her stories have been shortlisted for the Peter Carey Short Story Award and longlisted for the Stella Prize.
Priya De Vries is the author of the novels The Algorithm of Forgetting, Glass Lantern Country, and Tall Poppies, works of fiction that blend keen social observation with an eye for the systems—digital and human—that govern intimacy and power. Alongside her novels, she writes criticism and teaches narrative design at RMIT, where she mentors writers interested in hybrid forms and contemporary life online. She volunteers with PEN Melbourne and lives in Brunswick with her partner and an elderly whippet. She is at work on a collection about work and desire, continuing her interest in how ordinary people negotiate visibility, privacy, and care.
