Linda Atkins is a medical practitioner and writer living on Dharug land in NSW. A Ten Pound Pom immigrant, she was raised in Western Sydney, where she continues to live and work.
Linda’s work has been featured in The Calibre Essay Prize, The Olga Masters Prize, Grieve (2024, 2025), The ADAS Anthology, Stringybark Anthology, Persephone Literary Journal, Australian Book Review, Kill Your Darlings, Inside Story, Written Off Literary Journal and ZineWest, among others. She has been shortlisted or longlisted for numerous awards, including the Kill Your Darlings Flash Fiction Prize, Newcastle Short Story Prize, AAP Meniscus Emerging Writers Prize, Grieve Prize, Not Quite Write Prize, and the Born Writers Award.
In 2024, she was selected for the Parramatta Play Mates workshop, where her work was read by professional actors. She went on to co-write The Leftovers with Julian Colman, which received its debut reading at Riverside Theatre as part of Parramatta’s Lit! Festival and Sydney Fringe in 2025. She has since been a playwright in the 2026 Parramatta Play Project.
What We Left Behind is her debut novel.
