Gina Perry is an Australian writer, science historian and registered psychologist (although she’s non practising these days).
Gina lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne.
She is author of the acclaimed Behind the Shock Machine and The Lost Boys and her debut novel My Father the Whale was published by Harper Collins in June 2023.
Gina’s feature articles, columns, and essays have been published in newspapers and magazines including The Age, The Australian, Cosmos and New Scientist. Her co-production of the ABC Radio National documentary about Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiments, ‘Beyond the Shock Machine’, won the Silver World Medal for a history documentary in the 2009 New York Festivals radio awards. She was runner up for the Bragg UNSW Prize for Science Writing in 2013 and her work has been anthologised in Best Australian Science Writing (2013 and 2015). Her debut novel My Father the Whale was shortlisted for the Banjo Prize in 2021.
Gina obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne, jointly undertaken in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies and the School of Culture and Communication, and she is an associate in the Faculty of Arts. Her list of research publications is Behind the Shock Machine, The Lost Boys and My Father the Whale.
Events
Gina regularly moderates events at writers festivals and libraries. She gives author talks about aspects of non fiction and fiction writing at literary festivals and in community settings.
Gina has been interviewed regularly for Australian and international radio and podcasts. You can hear examples of her work as both an interviewer and an interviewee below.
Richard Fidler interviews Gina about the research and writing of Behind the Shock Machine.
Phoebe Judge interviews Gina about The Lost Boys on This is Criminal podcast.
Gina discusses her book The Lost Boys on CBC Canada.
Gina’s workspace is courtesy of Melbourne’s Meat Market.
