Jackie Ryan

Jackie Ryan is a prize-winning Australian writer. She is the author of
We’ll Show the World: Expo 88 (UQP), which won two 2018 Queensland Literary Awards: the Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance and the University of Southern Queensland History Book Award. It was also shortlisted for The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Award. Jackie produces the Aurealis Award-winning
Burger Force comic book series (also twice shortlisted for a Ledger Award for Excellence in Australian Comics) and is the founding editor of comedy writing collective the Fanciful Fiction Auxiliary. She holds a PhD in history and political science from The University of Queensland.