Nikki Gemmell

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Nikki Gemmell (born in 1967 in Wollongong, New South Wales) is an Australian author, best known for anonymously writing the best-selling erotic novel The Bride Stripped Bare.

Gemmell worked as a radio journalist for ABC Radio in Darwin, Northern Territory, and wrote three novels: Shiver, Cleave and Love Song, before the 2004 publication of The Bride Stripped Bare, which became a bestseller in Australia, the United Kingdom and France. Although published anonymously, Gemmell was soon identified at the author. In France she has been described variously as a "female Jack Kerouac".

Gemmell currently lives in West London with her husband and two children.

She has worked as a producer for the BBC World Service and in 2003 wrote a weekly column for the Mail on Sunday in London. The columns formed the basis of her latest book, a compendium called Pleasure: An Almanac for the Heart, published in 2006 in the UK and Australia.