Lexi Freiman (born c. 1983) is an Australian writer.
Freiman was born circa 1983 and is of Jewish Hungarian descent. Her mother was a psychotherapist, and her father was a gastroenterologist.[1]
In 2012, she received a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University.[1][2]
In the 2000s, Freiman traveled with Australia's national Shakespeare company.[1]
Later, she became an editor with George Braziller, and Persea Books.[3]
In 2013, Freiman was an Emerging Writer Fellow with The Center for Fiction.[4]
Her first novel, Inappropriation, was published in 2018 by Ecco Press. The novel was shortlisted for the 2019 New Australian Fiction Prize[5] and longlisted for the 2018 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize[6] and the 2019 Miles Franklin Award.[7]
In 2023, Catapult published Freiman's The Book of Ayn.
As of 2023, Freiman also writes for Australian television.[1]
Although she lived in the United States for a time, Freiman returned to Australia in 2020.[1]