Outspoken presents Inga Simpson

While Inga is the acclaimed author of seven works of fiction – Once We Were Wildlife, The Thinning, Willowman, The Last Woman in the World, Where the Trees Were, Nest and Mr Wigg – ​she is also recognised as one of the strongest voices in Australian Nature writing, with her wonderful book Understory, a Life with Trees.  

Now she has undertaken a passion project, A Tree-Lovers Guide to Australia, for which she travelled all over the continent, taking her own photographs and researching the stories of remarkable trees.

The book is exquisite, a sensational tour of beautiful, historic, rare and special trees.   

​​Inga was born in central west NSW. After living in Canberra, Brisbane, and the Sunshine Coast hinterland, she has settled on the far south coast of NSW. She began her career as a professional writer for government before gaining a PhD in creative writing and then, another one (Doctor Doctor in the German parlance) in English Literature, examining the history of nature writing on this continent.