Mary-Rose MacColl

|occupation=Novelist |nationality=Australian |alma_mater=Queensland University of Technology |website= }} Mary-Rose MacColl (born 1961) is an Australian novelist.

MacColl's first novel, ''No Safe Place'', was shortlisted for the 1995 Australian/Vogel Literary Award. In the 2016 Queensland Literary Awards, she won The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award for her novel ''Swimming Home''. She was nominated again in the 2017 Queensland Literary Awards in The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award for ''For a Girl''.

MacColl is a graduate in journalism from the Queensland University of Technology. She has contributed two essays to the ''Griffith Review''. Firstly, [https://griffithreview.com/articles/the-birth-wars/ "The Birth Wars"] for the issue, MoneySexPower, and more recently, "[https://griffithreview.com/articles/the-water-of-life/ The Water of Life]" for The Novella Project/Annual Fiction Edition.

At the 2022 Queensland Literary Awards, MacColl was awarded a Queensland Writers Fellowship valued at $15,000. Provided by Wikipedia