Megan Jacobson

Megan Jacobson is a Brisbane-based award-winning author, ABC journalist, and former TV scriptwriter.

Her first novel, Yellow, was a Shortlisted Book in the Book of the Year: Older Readers category of the 2017 CBCA Awards. It was shortlisted for the 2018 REAL Children's Choice awards: Fiction for years 7-9; shortlisted for the 2017 Davitt Awards: Young Adult and Best Debut categories; and the audible version had a starred review and was ranked a Top 10 Audiobooks of 2016 by the esteemed American magazine and website School Library Journal (SLJ).

Her second novel, The Build-Up Season, won the 2018 Australian Family Therapists' Award for Children's Literature; was shortlisted for the 2018 NSW Premier's Literary Awards - the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature; and was shortlisted for the 2019 REAL Children's Choice Awards: Fiction for Years 7-9.

Megan's short stories have been published in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Review of Australian Fiction, aired on ABC radio, and appeared in the UTS Writers Anthology.

She has a degree in journalism and has also worked as an in-house script story-liner and script editor for several Australian television dramas, including the International Emmy nominated children's series Dance Academy. She currently works part-time as an ABC News TikTok producer and journalist when she's not writing or hanging with her family.