Phillipa McGuinness

Phillipa McGuinness is the editor of Openbook, the State Library of NSW's glossy quarterly magazine. A former non-fiction book publisher, she is the author of two books published by Penguin, Skin Deep: the inside story of our outer selves and The Year Everything Changed – 2001, which was shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Award for Literature and the Queensland Literary Awards. She is also the editor of Copyfight. Her work has appeared in Griffith Review, The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, Meanjin, The Weekend Australian Magazine and The Australian Women's Weekly.