Fiona McIntosh (born 1960) is an English-born Australian author of adult and children's books. She has also written under the pen name Lauren Crow.

Early life and education

Fiona McIntosh was born in Brighton, England, in 1960. As a child she spent some months in Ghana, West Africa, where her father worked for a mining company. After studying marketing in Brighton followed by a stint in a public relations job in London, she travelled to Australia at the age of 21, where she met her future husband,Ian, in Alice Springs. They moved to Adelaide, South Australia, where they founded a monthly magazine, Travel News Australia. McIntosh wrote as a hobby before attending a writing workshop around 2000 in Tasmania led by writer Bryce Courtenay, who encouraged and mentored her.

Other activities

McIntosh founded a fantasy book club in Adelaide in the early 2000s, whose members included Sean Williams, Tony Shillitoe, Joel Shepherd, Shane Dix, Lian Hearn, and David Cornish. She has run writing workshops and taught fantasy writing at TAFE college.

Career

McIntosh writes fantasy novels for adults and children. Her first novel was Betrayal (2001), which she wrote over five weeks. It was picked up by a publisher as the first in a trilogy called Trinity. In 2007, she published a crime novel, Bye Bye Baby, under the pen name of Lauren Crow. In 2021 McIntosh signed a film rights deal with Monica Saunders-Weinberg, head of Hana Black Productions, to make a film of her wartime drama novel The Pearl Thief. It is being adapted by producer Bruna Papandrea. In July 2024 she was writing her 46th book. In 2024 Storm Publishing signed a seven-book deal with McIntosh to publish her books in the UK and the US.

Personal life

, McIntosh and her husband live on a property in Riverton, South Australia.

Published works

Adult fiction

Trinity

The Quickening

Percheron

Valisar

Jack Hawksworth series

Other novels

Short stories

Children's fiction

Shapeshifter

Other works

Non fiction