Billy Griffiths

Billy Griffiths is an Australian writer and historian. He is the bestselling author of Deep Time Dreaming, which has won prizes in literature, archaeology and history, including Book of the Year at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. His latest book is The First Inventors: How people shaped a continent, with Larissa Behrendt and Sean Ulm (Allen & Unwin, 2026). He lectures in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University and holds a research fellowship with the Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation.