Eloise Grills is an award-winning artist and writer living on unceded Dja Dja Wurrung land. Her illustrated memoir-in-essays, big beautiful female theory was published in Australia by Affirm Press in 2022. The book has been shortlisted for the 2023 Stella Prize, shortlisted for the 2023 Indie Book Award for Illustrated Nonfiction, highly commended in the 2023 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards for Nonfiction and highly commended by the judges of the 2021 Peter Blazey Fellowship.

Her work has been published by The New Yorker, The Nib, Kill Your Darlings, Guardian, The Rumpus, Meanjin, The Saturday Paper and others. Her comics, poetry and essays have won the Melbourne Writers’ Prize, the Lifted Brow x RMIT nonFictionLab Experimental Nonfiction Prize, the QPF Prize for Innovation in Spoken Word and the Woollahra Digital Literary Award. Her work has been funded by Creative Victoria, Regional Arts Victoria, the Australia Council and the Copyright Agency.

She has published three chapbooks: Dog Park, a comics collaboration with film academic Radha O’Meara (2022); Sexy Female Murderesses, a graphic memoir (Glom Press, 2018); and the Mary-Gilmore-award-shortlisted If you’re sexy and you know it slap your hams (Subbed In, 2019).

She is represented by Martin Shaw at the Books Desk. Please get in touch with him in regards to all rights enquiries associated with big beautiful female theory: martin [at] thebooksdesk [dot] com. She is currently a PhD Candidate at RMIT University researching risk in hybrid literary forms.

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