Priya De Vries is an Australian novelist and essayist whose work explores ambition, surveillance, 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, and her essays and short fiction have appeared in Meanjin, Overland, Griffith Review, and The Saturday Paper.
Priya is the author of the novels The Algorithm of Forgetting and Glass Lantern Country, and her stories have been shortlisted for the Peter Carey Short Story Award and longlisted for the Stella Prize. She has taught narrative design at RMIT and volunteers with PEN Melbourne. She lives in Brunswick with her partner and an elderly whippet, and is at work on a collection about work and desire.
