Lin van Hek is an Australian writer, singer, painter, fashion designer and artist.
She was the 1988 winner of the Melbourne The Age Short Story Award, included
in 2015 Best Australian Poems, edited by Geoff Page, and was the 2016 and 2017
winner of the Society of Women Writers Short Story Contest. A story she published
in Quadrant May 2013, ‘This Most Privileged of Madnesses,’ was commented on, by
then-literary editor Les Murray AO, as, ‘most definitely the very best short story I have
read. Possibly up there with the best ever written.’
Novels
The Ballad of Siddy Church
The Hanging Girl
Katherine Mansfield's Black Paper Fan
Short stories
The Slain Lamb Stories
Anna's Box
