Liza Dezfouli

Liza Dezfouli is a queer speaker, writer and performer based in Melbourne. She started writing when she was a sole parent of two young children. Since then she’s written short stories, plays, articles, and a novel. She’s acted in film and theatre, and performed cabaret, stand up comedy, spoken word and poetry. She was awarded the Darebin Mayor’s Creative Writing Prize for 2024 and has recently won the Hunter Writers’ Centre’s 2025 Winter Member Competition. Her one-woman comedy show, Binosaur, will be presented in the Midsumma 2026 festival.