Cirrus@Austlit

Gaby Naher completed a communications degree at the University of Technology Sydney and then sought employment in London with publishing companies. Naher worked initially with Chatto and later moved to Hodder and Serpent's Tale. After six years overseas, she returned to Australia.

Having completed her first novel, Naher joined Jill Hickson's literary agency for a period before taking up writing full-time. She subsequently formed her own agency, the Naher Agency, in May 2008. She ran the agency for nine years, before joining with Grace Heifetz to form Left Bank Literary in 2019. Tom Gilliatt joined the agency in 2022, but Left Bank Literary dissolved on 1 December 2024: Naher relaunched The Naher Agency.

Naher also holds a Doctorate of Creative Arts.

On a visit to Tibet in 1990 to write a biography of the Dalai Lama, she was profoundly moved by the plight of the Tibetan people, and she went on to become Chair of the Australia Tibet Council, campaigning for the basic rights of the Tibetan people.

In 2018, she was the president of the Australian Literary Agents Association.