Verity Borthwick has been published in The Best Australian Stories, Meanjin, Island, The Furphy Anthology, The UTS Writers’ Anthology, Aurealis, Science Write Now and Vestal Review. She was the overall UTS 2022 Anthology Award winner, and her work has been shortlisted for the Island Nonfiction Prize, the Furphy Literary Award and the Alan Marshall Short Story Award. She completed a Master of Arts in Creative Writing at UTS in 2021.

Verity comes to writing from a background in geology; she started writing fiction by night, while working on her PhD in structural geology by day—looking at one crystal of salt for four years. She has worked in various remote locations around Australia as an exploration geologist, which was the inspiration for her novel Hollow Air—forthcoming with Ultimo Press. When not writing, Verity currently works as a freelance editor.