Erin Hortle

Erin Hortle is a Tasmanian-based author whose fiction and essays explore new ways of imagining the human's relationship with the more than human world, with a distinctly feminist bent. Topics she writes about include surfing and surf culture, pelagic birds, octopuses and ambergris. The Octopus and I, her debut novel was published Allen & Unwin in 2020 and was shortlisted for UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing and longlisted for the Voss Literary Prize and Tasmanian Book Prize. Her second novel, A Catalogue of Love, was published by Simon and Schuster in August, 2025.