Grantlee Kieza

Grantlee Kieza OAM is an award-winning journalist and the highly acclaimed, bestselling author of more than twenty books. Kieza held senior editorial positions at major newspapers in Sydney and Brisbane for many years and was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for his writing. He is a Walkley Award finalist, a 2025 ABIA shortlisted author for Biography of the Year, a 2024 and 2025 Indie Award shortlisted author for Non-Fiction, and the top-selling history author in Australia in 2024.

He is the author of national bestsellers Mr and Mrs Gould, Sister Viv, Flinders, The Remarkable Mrs Reibey, Hudson Fysh, Lawson, Banks, Macquarie, Banjo, Mrs Kelly, Monash and Bert Hinkler. He also has a long pedigree in sports and in 2017 was inducted into the Australian Boxing Hall of Fame.