Tracy Sorensen

Tracy Anne Sorensen
Born(1963-10-17)17 October 1963
Died5 May 2025(2025-05-05) (aged 61)
Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian
Notable worksThe Lucky Galah
Website
squawkingalah.com.au

Tracy Sorensen (17 October 1963 – 5 May 2025) was an Australian novelist, filmmaker and academic.[1][2]

Career

Sorensen was a tutor and lecturer at Charles Sturt University and published five academic papers.[3]

In February 2018, her debut novel The Lucky Galah was published through Pan MacMillan.[4] It was shortlisted and longlisted in multiple awards (see below). It is narrated by a flightless pet galah observing characters from a family's back verandah in a small Western Australian town.[5] In August 2019, Sorensen was awarded the Judy Harris Writer in Residence Fellowship at the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre.[6] In July 2023, Sorensen's second book The Vitals was published through Pan MacMillan. It deals with her experience of cancer in 2014 from the point of view of her affected abdominal organs.[7]

Personal life

Sorensen was born on 17 October 1963.[8] She grew up in Carnarvon on the north coast of Western Australia,[4] and lived in Bathurst from 2003.[2][9][10]

In 2013 she was diagnosed with peritoneal cancer, spurring her into writing two novels. After treatment the cancer went into remission, but returned 8 1/2 years later.[11]

She graduated with a PhD in 2024 from Charles Sturt University School of Communication and Creative Industries, with her research focused on the role of handicrafts such as crochet in climate change communication.[2][12]

Sorenson died on 5 May 2025, at the age of 61.[8]

Bibliography

Novels

Awards

The Lucky Galah

References

  1. ^ "The Lucky Galah by Tracy Sorensen". Booktopia. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  2. ^ a b c Spencer, Neville (6 May 2025). "Vale Tracy Sorensen: Academic, author and all-round creative human". green left. No. 1429. Retrieved 6 May 2025.
  3. ^ "Tracy Sorensen". Charles Sturt University. Archived from the original on 2 March 2021. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  4. ^ a b "The Lucky Galah". Pan MacMillan. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  5. ^ "Author Tracy Sorensen was dealing with cancer. So she turned her spleen into an 'anarcho communist'". ABC News. 29 August 2023. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
  6. ^ Kembrey, Melanie (30 August 2019). "Tracy Sorensen named 2019 Judy Harris Writer in Residence". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
  7. ^ Israel, Janine (24 July 2023). "'It's some sort of cosmic joke': Tracy Sorensen wrote a book about surviving cancer. Now it has returned". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
  8. ^ a b "Family notices". Western Advocate (Bathurst). 10 May 2025 – via Ryerson Index.
  9. ^ "Tracy Sorensen - Faculty of Arts". Charles Sturt University. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  10. ^ "Jacinta Dimase Management Tracy Sorensen". Jacinta Dimase Management. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
  11. ^ Price, Sarah (29 August 2023). "Tracy Sorensen's unusual cancer memoir The Vitals lets her body's organs tell the story". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 7 June 2025.
  12. ^ "Tracy Sorensen". Writing NSW. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
  13. ^ "NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 28 February 2019. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  14. ^ "Readings announces 2018 New Australian Fiction Award shortlist". Books+Publishing. 22 August 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  15. ^ "Indie Book Awards 2019 longlists announced". Books+Publishing. 5 December 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
  16. ^ "Russell Prize for Humour Writing 2019 shortlist announced". Books + Publishing. 18 April 2019. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  17. ^ "Miles Franklin 2019 longlist announced". Books+Publishing. 22 May 2019. Retrieved 22 May 2019.


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