Nigel Featherstone is an Australian novelist, playwright, librettist, freelancer, and music maker. His most recent novel, My Heart is a Little Wild Thing, was published in 2022. Nigel's most recent work is The Wreck Event, a 16-song, spokenword-and-music album, created in collaboration with award-winning poets Melinda Smith, Stuart Barnes, and CJ Bowerbird.

Nigel’s war novel, Bodies of Men, was longlisted for the 2020 ARA Historical Novel Prize, shortlisted for the 2020 ACT Book of the Year, shortlisted in the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards, and received a 2019 Canberra Critics Circle Award. His short stories have appeared in numerous literary journals such as the Review of Australian Fiction, Meanjin, Overland, and Island. Nigel also writes for the stage, he wrote the libretto for The Weight of Light, music by James Humberstone, in 2018. As a freelancer, Nigel’s work has appeared in a variety of mastheads and journals, including the Sydney Morning Herald, Guardian Australia, and the Chicago Quarterly Review. He has been supported by artsACT, Create NSW, and Creative Australia. In 2022, Nigel was named the ACT Artist of the Year.