Vikki Wakefield


Vikki Wakefield is an Australian author who writes young adult fiction.

Career

After a career working in banking, journalism and graphic design, Wakefield studied at TAFE and began writing.
Her first book, All I Ever Wanted, was published in 2011 and won the inaugural Adelaide Festival Award for Literature for Young Adult Fiction in 2012 and was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Prize for Writing for Young Adults in the same year. Two years later her second book, Friday Brown, won the same prize. It was also shortlisted for the 2013 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for young adult fiction. In 2016 her third book, Inbetween Days, was an honour book in the.
Wakefield's fourth book, Ballad for a Mad Girl, won the 2018 Davitt Award for best young adult novel and was shortlisted for other awards. This is How We Change the Ending, her fifth novel was shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Premier's Prize for Writing for Young Adults and for the 2020 Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers.
Wakefield's book, This is How We Change the Ending, was longlisted for the 2020 Stella Prize.

Works