Talitha McQueen is an Australian-born writer, photographer, and visual artist based in London. Her fiction explores the lives of overlooked historical women through a dark, upmarket gothic horror lens.
She has completed her debut historical gothic novel, Mrs Crowley, which reimagines the life of Aleister Crowley’s wife, Rose Edith Kelly, from her own perspective. Her current works in progress include a second novel, an autofiction novella, and a short-story collection.
Talitha graduated with Distinction from her Master’s degree in Creative Writing, where her dissertation and autofiction novella examined how contemporary women writers use Gothic techniques to explore trauma, identity, and memory. In September 2026, she commenced a creative-critical PhD in English with Creative Writing at the University of York, where her doctoral research focuses on feminist archival recovery of the Scottish author Emily Gerard.
Her work has been a finalist in the Page Turner Awards and longlisted for The London Library Emerging Writers Programme. In 2026, she was selected for the Granta Short Literary Fiction Workshop, tutored by Camilla Grudova.
Talitha shares her photography and love of books via her Instagram account (@talithamcqueenwrites), which has a following of 24,000.
She is represented by James Wills of Watson, Little.
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