TOBIAS MADDEN

Originally from Ballarat, Australia, Tobias now resides in New York City with his husband and their Cavoodle, Ollie. Tobias worked for ten years as a performer, touring Australia and New Zealand with musicals such as Mary Poppins, CATS, and Guys and Dolls.

 

Tobias’s debut young adult fiction novel, Anything But Fine, was awarded the Australian Association of Family Therapy’s Book Award for Older Readers, was shortlisted for the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year for Older Readers, was named one of Better Reading’s Top 50 Kids Books (2022), and was included on Bank Street College of Education’s list of Best Children’s Books of the Year (2023).

 

His other young adult novels include Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell and the Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Book for Older Readers (2025), Wrong Answers Only.