Philippa Moore is an award-winning Hobart-based writer.  Her first book, The Latte Years, was published by Nero/Black Inc Books in January 2016.

Philippa has had a lifelong fascination with language, words and stories – and once she realised, at about age 9, that books were written by actual people and not a factory full of monkeys at typewriters, she decided that was what she wanted to do.

But apart from when she won The University of Tasmania’s one-act play competition in 2000, all her writing was done secretly in notebooks until 2005 when she moved to Melbourne and started a blog (not that most people knew what one was then) that changed her life. 

She was the author of that blog, Skinny Latte Strikes Back, until 2014, which earned her accolades from “Best health, diet and fitness blog” at the 2011 Cosmopolitan Blog Awards to one of “50 Websites to Watch” in Instyle  in 2013. She was even part of Lucozade Sport’s media team for the 2011 Virgin London Marathon. 

Despite maths being her worst subject at school, Philippa worked in finance for many years before retraining as a journalist and editor. Her work has been published by a diverse range of media outlets and publications including Womankind, Guardian Australia, Cosmopolitan UK and The British Medical Journal, among others (please see her portfolio for more details).

Philippa lived in London, UK from 2007 to 2018. During that time she was a contributor to the inaugural 2014 Australia & New Zealand Festival of Literature & the Arts, the host of a podcast dubbed “New and Noteworthy” by iTunes UK, and a guest speaker at various UK healthy living and blogging events.

It was also in London that she met and married her amazing husband Tom, who is a cartoonist and all-round great guy. They returned to Australia together in December 2018 and now live in Tasmania where they run a boutique communications agency, Winchmore Creative.

Philippa is currently working on a novel set in 1820s Australia as part of her PhD in creative writing and colonial history at the University of Tasmania. Her PhD project has received a 2023 KSP Residential Fellowship and she is the joint winner of the 2022-23 Van Diemen History Prize.

When she’s not writing, Philippa enjoys keeping fit, reading experimental writing, music, being in nature, cooking, road trips and growing vegetables in her tiny garden. She also enjoys writing about herself in the third person.

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