Biography

Holly Throsby is an Australian musician and novelist. She has released five solo albums – On Night (2004), Under the Town (2006), A Loud Call (2008), Team (2011), and After a Time (2017) – as well as a collection of original children’s songs (See!, 2010), and two albums (in 2011 and 2019) as part of the band, Seeker Lover Keeper (with Sarah Blasko and Sally Seltmann). Holly’s debut novel, Goodwood (2016), was a critically acclaimed bestseller. It has been shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis Award, an Indie Book Award, two Australian Book Industry Awards, two Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards, and a Ned Kelly Award. Goodwood is currently in development for a series through ABC and ABC Studios International. Holly’s second novel, Cedar Valley, has been longlisted for an Indie Book Award, a Sisters in Crime Davitt Award, and featured in several best books of the year lists. Australian Book Review called Cedar Valley “large and luminous” and “bracingly alive to the complexities and ellipses of existence”. Holly has been nominated for four ARIAs – including two for Best Female Artist, and one for Best Children’s Album. Her song, ‘Aeroplane’, has had over 24 million streams on Spotify. She has toured in Australia and abroad with artists such as Bill Callahan, Joanna Newsom, Paul Kelly and The Handsome Family. Guests on her albums include Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Mick Turner (Dirty Three) and Mark Kozelek (Sun Kil Moon, Red House Painters).