Madeleine Gray, whose acclaimed debut novel, Green Dot was published in 2023, is a writer and critic from Sydney. She has written arts criticism for the Sydney Review of Books, Overland, Meanjin, The Lifted Brow, The Saturday Paper, and The Monthly.  In 2019 she was a CA-SRB Emerging Critic, and last year she was a finalist for the Walkley Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism, a finalist for the Woollahra Digital Literary Non-fiction award, and a recipient of a Nielma Sidney Literary Travel grant. She has a Master of Studies degree in English from the University of Oxford and is a current doctoral candidate at the University of Manchester, researching contemporary women's autobiographical literary theory.