Lauren Novak
Author | Journalist | MC
Lauren Novak is an award-winning Australian journalist whose work has been published in News Corp newspapers, magazines and websites for the past two decades.
Lauren specialises in coverage of education, child safety, parenting, gender and family violence and is an Our Watch Walkley Foundation fellow.
Her work has been recognised with state and national accolades, including as a three-time winner of the South Australian Press Club’s Gold Award for journalist of the year.
Lauren lives on Kaurna land, in Adelaide, with her partner and their two lively kids, born less than two years apart during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Meltdown: Why motherhood makes us angry and what to do about it is her first book, out now with HarperCollins Australia and UK.
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I acknowledge the Kaurna people, the traditional owners of the land on which I live, write and raise my children. I also acknowledge the cultural authority of First Nations people around Australia and pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging.