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Rebecca Starford

Rebecca Starford is an Australian author known for her memoir, Bad Behaviour. She is the co-founder of the literary journal Kill Your Darlings. Starford's debut novel, The Imitator, was published in 2021.

Starford was born in Melbourne and grew up in Williamstown. She attended Williamstown Primary School.^[1] As chronicled in her memoir, Starford lived in the bush for a year when she was 14 while attending an elite boarding school in Victoria.^[2][3]

Starford co-founded the literary journal Kill Your Darlings with Hannah Kent. Kill Your Darlings' first edition was published in 2010.^[4]

Starford's first book, a memoir titled, Bad Behaviour, was published in 2015 to generally favourable reviews.^[5][6][7] Bad Behaviour was adapted into a miniseries of the same name in 2023, directed by Corrie Chen and starring Jana McKinnon as Starford's character.^[2]

In 2021, Starford's first novel, The Imitator, was published by Allen & Unwin.^[8][9] The novel was published under the title, An Unlikely Spy, in the United States.^[10]

Starford teaches at the University of Queensland.^[4]

Starford lives with her partner in Brisbane.^[4]

• Bad Behaviour: A Memoir of Bullying and Boarding School (2015)
• The Imitator (2021, also published as An Unlikely Spy)