ABOUT

Hello! I’m a writer and journalist working at Guardian Australia.

I’ve also written about books, the arts, and technology for The Atlantic, VICE, Good Weekend, The Saturday Paper, The Outline, The Big Issue, Griffith Review and more, and I was previously a reporter at New Scientist.

My reporting was a 2024 Walkley Award finalist for Women’s Leadership in Media, and my writing has also been shortlisted for the Bragg Prize.

I edited The Best Australian Science Writing 2023 (NewSouth Books) and also have work anthologised in the 2020 and 2021 editions.

I am on Bluesky @donnadlu.

Photograph by Madeline Begley, 2023.