McGregor has written for a variety of publications including
The Sydney Morning Herald,
HEAT,
Sydney Review of Books,
Meanjin,
The Times Literary Supplement,
Art Monthly,
The Monthly,
The Saturday Paper and
RealTime. In 2020 they began publishing under their full name, Fiona Kelly McGregor. Following the publication of their first two books in 1993 and 1994, McGregor was named one of the inaugural
Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists in 1997. Since then, McGregor has won and been shortlisted for multiple awards for short stories, novels and essays. As a performance artist McGregor toured with
You Have the Body, a meditation on unlawful detention, in 2008–09, and she screened her 4-hour video
Vertigo at the MOP gallery in Sydney in February 2011. In November 2011, she presented a solo show at
Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney, entitled Water Series. McGregor's fourth book,
Strange Museums, is a travel memoir about a performance art tour McGregor undertook through Poland in 2006. ==Awards and nominations==