Tim Elliot is an award-winning journalist and author whose work has appeared in London’s The Financial Times, The Sunday Times, and The Australian. He is currently senior writer at Good Weekend, the Saturday magazine for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, where he has won two Kennedy Awards and been nominated for a Walkley. His stories have also won Best Feature at the Australian Magazine Awards and from the Australian Society of Magazine Editors.
A 2014 Good Weekend story by Tim about his father’s suicide generated one of the largest reader responses in the history of The Sydney Morning Herald and let to his book, Farewell to the Father, in 2016. His first book, The Bolivian Times, is an account of six months he spent working on an English language paper in South America.