Liz Filleul

Liz Filleul is a multi-award-winning short story writer. She won the Scarlet Stiletto Award in 2004, was runner-up in 2007, 2011 and 2016, won the Cross-Genre Award in 2011, and the Mystery With History Award in 2016 and 2025. 

She was a finalist for the 2023 Derringer Award, run by the Short Mystery Fiction Society in the US.

Since 2020, she has had more than 50 stories and several serials published in UK magazine The People’s Friend, including three stories featuring the convict constable, Will Grafton. She has also written solve-it-yourself mysteries for US magazine Woman’s World.

Liz was born in the UK and migrated to Australia in the 1990s after meeting her Australian husband while backpacking around Tasmania. She lives on Mount Dandenong, in Victoria.