Jeff Sparrow is a writer, editor, broadcaster and Walkley award–winning journalist.

He is a columnist for Guardian Australia, a former Breakfaster at radio station 3RRR, and a past editor of Overland literary journal. He is the author of Crimes Against Nature: Capitalism and Global Heating; Fascists Among Us: Online Hate and the Christchurch Massacre; Trigger Warnings: Political Correctness and the Rise of the Right; No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson; Money Shot: A Journey into Porn and Censorship; Killing: Misadventures in Violence and Communism: A Love Story; the co-author, with Jill Sparrow, of Radical Melbourne: A Secret History and Radical Melbourne 2: The Enemy Within; and the co-editor, with Anthony Loewenstein, of Left Turn: Essays for the New Left.

He is a lecturer at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne.