Meet Monica.

About

Monica Dux is a writer, commentator, and columnist.

She was a founding board member of the Stella Prize, and the Feminist Writers Festival. In a former, life, Monica researched history at the University of Melbourne, worked at Melbourne University Publishing and on The Monthly magazine.

She is the author of Lapsed (HarperCollins ABC Books, 2021), Things I Didn’t Expect (when I was expecting) (MUP, 2013), co-author of The Great Feminist Denial (MUP, 2008), and editor of the anthology Mothermorphosis (MUP, 2015).

From 2013-2022, Monica wrote a much loved column every fortnight in The Age’s Spectrum section, covering everything from politics and culture to the idiosyncratic behaviour of her (very special) dog. 

A link to her columns in The Age can be found here.

Monica is represented by Clare Forster at Curtis Brown Australia. She is on Instagram as @jmjdux, occasionally tweets @monicadux and can be contacted at mmdux@bigpond.net.au.

Praise for Monica Dux

‘Wonderfully witty and wry.’ - THE AUSTRALIAN

‘A myth-buster, inquisitive, intrepid and irreverent.’ - THE AGE

‘Monica Dux is gifted with the rarest ability to marry intellectual rigour, sh*t-yourself-funny insight and humane tenderness.’ - BENJAMIN LAW

‘In the event of a call for the Voice of my generation of mothers, I nominate Monica Dux.’ – CORDELIA FINE