Courtney Collins is an author, screenwriter and producer. Her first novel, The Burial (2012), was published in ten countries and shortlisted for the Nita B Kibble Literary Award, NSW Premier's Literary Award for New Writing and the Stella Prize. The Burial is currently being adapted as a feature film.

In 2019, she travelled to the Himalayan region of Himachal Pradesh, India, to research her second novel, BIRD (July, 2024). She presents and co-produces the podcast, Are You Still Working?

Courtney holds a Master of Creative Writing and is completing a PhD titled 'Working Against Whiteness in Creative Literary Production’. She lived in the remote Northern Territory for eight years before relocating to Gumbaynggirr Country, on the Mid North Coast.