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Julia Baird is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author based in Sydney, Australia. She hosts the podcast Not Stupid with Jeremy Fernandez on ABC Listen. Her writing has appeared in a range of publications including Newsweek, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Guardian, the Good Weekend, The Sydney Morning Herald, the Sun-Herald, The Monthly, Time and Harpers' Bazaar.
In her books, Julia continues to write with depth about life. Her new book, Bright Shining: How grace changes everything follows the unforgettable, award-winning bestseller Phosphorescence.
Her much-lauded biography of Queen Victoria was published in several countries and made one of the New York Times' critics best books of 2016.
Baird spent several years working in the US. In 2005, she was a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press and Public Policy at Harvard, researching the global response to American opinion in the lead-up to the Iraq War. Shortly afterwards she was appointed senior editor at Newsweek, where she was responsible for cover stories on such subjects as the hidden world of surrogacy, the history of climate science denial, the science of hate and the way gender shapes voting in American politics. She became a columnist there, as well as at the Philadelphia Inquirer and then the New York Times.
She has had a wide-ranging career in print and broadcast journalism both in the United States and Australia. Her work has earned her four Walkley Our Watch Awards, (including the Gold) for her reporting on domestic violence, a Walkley Award for team election reporting, and two further Walkley nominations, for analysis and commentary and for Victoria: The Queen.
Baird's history PhD, on female politicians and the media, formed the basis of her first book, Media Tarts: How the Australian Press Frames Female Politicians (2004). Baird has also taught history, made radio documentaries on subjects as diverse as black metal music and convent education, sold flowers, catalogued art and waited tables.
Baird received both her BA and PhD in History from Sydney University. She hosted the weekly current affairs panel show The Drum for eleven years and is a highly sought after keynote speaker, MC and panel facilitator.
She spends as much time in or on the ocean as she can, hunting awe. She lives with her two children, a tyrannical cat and an abnormally large dog.
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