Phillipa McGuinness’ most recent book is Skin Deep: The Inside Story of Our Outer Selves.
She is also the author of The Year Everything Changed: 2001, which was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards and the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, and is the editor of Copyfight. She has written for The Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald, Griffith Review, Meanjin, Inside Story and The Weekend Australian Magazine. A former book publisher, she lives in Sydney.