Fiona McGregor has lived in Sydney most of her life. Her short stories have been awarded prizes and widely anthologised. She was voted one of the inaugural Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists in 1997. She has written articles, reviews and critiques for a variety of publications including Sydney Morning Herald, Heat, Meanjin, TLS and Real Time.
McGregor has had extensive involvement in music, performance and event production since about 1986. In her capacity as both a writer and live artist, she has spoken at festivals, symposia and conferences across Australia since about 1996. In 1999 she co-founded senVoodoo, performance collective, with visual artist AnA Wojak. senVoodoo toured Poland in 2006. Their work has been shown across Australia, in China, South America, the UK and Eastern Europe.
McGregor is the younger sister of journalist Richard McGregor and cousin of singer-songwriter Paul Kelly. Prior to 2020, she primarily published as 'Fiona McGregor'.