Bri Lee grew up in Brisbane, and her first job was as a judge’s associate in the Queensland District Court.

This experience, hearing, repeatedly, about child abuse and sexual assault cases, upended everything Bri thought she knew about the Australian judicial system, and her own sense of safety within it.

Bri’s memoir Eggshell Skull was published in 2018; a response to her own experience inside the court system as a victim of sexual assault. Highlighted within the spotlight of the MeToo movement, Bri became a voice for victim survivors around the country, rightly by-lined as a ‘change maker’ and ‘leader of reform’.

Eggshell Skull won Biography of the Year at the Australian Book Industry Awards, was longlisted for The Stella Prize, and in 2021, was quoted during a parliamentary debate regarding reform in the Queensland criminal justice system.

Bri’s other works include Beauty, Who Gets to be Smart, and The Work.

In 2021, Bri founded the ‘FREADom Inside’ Project alongside the grassroots community organisation Women’s Justice Network, which provides incarcerated women and girls with access to books in NSW.

Bri’s latest book Seed is a fictional novel, which grapples with climate anxiety, value-based living, and the prospect of having children in an unstable world.