Rebecca Starford

Starford was born in Melbourne and grew up in Williamstown. She attended Williamstown Primary School.^[1] As chronicled in her memoir, Starford lived in the bush for a year when she was 14 while attending an elite boarding school in Victoria.^[2][3]

Starford co-founded the literary journal Kill Your Darlings with Hannah Kent. Kill Your Darlings' first edition was published in 2010.^[4]

Starford's first book, a memoir titled, Bad Behaviour, was published in 2015 to generally favourable reviews.^[5][6][7] Bad Behaviour was adapted into a miniseries of the same name in 2023, directed by Corrie Chen and starring Jana McKinnon as Starford's character.^[2]

In 2021, Starford's first novel, The Imitator, was published by Allen & Unwin.^[8][9] The novel was published under the title, An Unlikely Spy, in the United States.^[10]

Starford teaches at the University of Queensland.^[4]

Starford lives with her partner in Brisbane.^[4]

• Bad Behaviour: A Memoir of Bullying and Boarding School (2015)
• The Imitator (2021, also published as An Unlikely Spy)