Nikki Gemmell

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

Gemmell was born in Wollongong, New South Wales. She has worked as a radio journalist for ABC Radio in Darwin, Northern Territory and at Triple J and as a producer for the BBC World Service.

She wrote three novels: Shiver, Cleave and Love Song, before the 2003 publication of The Bride Stripped Bare, which became a bestseller in Australia, the United Kingdom and France. Although published anonymously, Gemmell was soon identified as the author. In France she has been described as a "female Jack Kerouac".^[who?]

In 2003 she wrote a weekly column for the Mail on Sunday in London which formed the basis of her latest book, a compendium called Pleasure: An Almanac for the Heart, published in 2006 in the UK and Australia.

Gemmell currently lives in West London with her husband and three children and is working on her fifth novel.