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Jessica Au is an Australian editor and bookseller, and author of the novels Cargo and Cold Enough for Snow. Au won the inaugural Novel Prize in 2022. She is based in Melbourne.

Au won the 2023 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction and both the 2023 Victorian Premier's Prize for Literature and Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction for Cold Enough for Snow.

Au's book Cold Enough for Snow has been added to NESA's Year 12 English Advanced syllabus (2024) as a prescribed text for the Focus Area: Texts and Human Experiences. Where students are requested to deepen their understanding of how texts represent individual and collective human experiences.

Publications

Cargo (2011)

Cold Enough for Snow (2022)