sandra.thomjones

Sandra Thom-Jones is an autistic author, researcher and advocate living in Melbourne, Australia. Her non-fiction books include Growing in to Autism (Melbourne University Press, 2022; 2025), Autistics in Academia (Cambridge University Press, 2025), and Autistics at Work (MUP, 2025). In 2023 she left a career in university leadership to focus on writing fiction with autistic characters and recently completed her first novel. In 2025 Sandra won the Scarlet Stiletto Award for short crime fiction.