Lyn Dickens is of Singaporean Peranakan and Anglo-Celtic Australian ancestry, and was born in Western Australia and raised in Adelaide and Sydney. She holds a doctorate from the University of Sydney, and has also studied at Cambridge. She has taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels at Southern Cross University. She later undertook a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide, where she was a member of the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice: while there, she co-founded the Saltbush Review.
Dickens has held a Asialink Arts Residency (2017) and participated in WriteNow London (2017). Her work has been longlisted for the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize (Cambridge) and the Richell Prize.
