Author, Writing consultant, clinical audiologist

N'Gadie Roberts

N'Gadie Roberts is an acclaimed Australian writer, poet, librettist, and award-winning dramaturgist from Perth, Western Australia. She is also the author of the best-selling book, Grave Delights.N'Gadie's words have been translated into Dutch, commissioned by award-winning composer, Bobbie-Jane Gardiner, and celebrated in prestigious literary journals, websites, and societies including SHOWStudio, Westerly, Cordite Poetry Review, Insider Guides, Cygnus Biology, and The Howard University Writer's Guild to name a few.Most recently, N'Gadie's poem, Mami Wata was orated by actress, Cynthia Erivo and featured in the The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art’s (MET) 2024 Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion exhibition, with a visual installation by fashion photographer, Nick Knight CBE.She was also a librettist for the United Kingdom's first Black-and-Asian-led opera production of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, which received a letter of endorsement from His Majesty, King Charles.N'Gadie completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Cultural Studies with Honours in Creative Writing from The University of Western Australia (UWA). A gothic enthusiast, her dissertation explored the use of Freud's Das Unheimliche (The Uncanny) to convey experiences of trauma in contemporary gothic fiction. In 2019, a short story from N'Gadie's dissertation was peer-reviewed and published by Monash University Press in Melbourne, Australia.Outside of writing, N'Gadie holds a Master of Clinical Audiology degree from UWA. She has worked as a paediatric and adult audiologist, district court interpreter, university ambassador, tutor and mentor for the department for child protection and family support, consultant for philanthropy organisations, and more.In 2022, she was acknowledged for her community contribution related to writing and healthcare, and received the Western Australian (WA) Emerging Young Leader Award by The African Australian Organisation of WA, WA Department of Cultural Industries, Edith Cowan University and WA Police.N’Gadie currently lives in Cambridge, England.

Grave Delights"Be prepared for tales that shock while exposing matters that might be thought about, but not spoken of, in the daylight hours."

Rooted in Freedom"This collective body of work navigates the intersections between race, gender, personal narrative and the longing for freedom. ."