Novelist, essayist, feminist.
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Books
The Thinking Woman, New South, 2019
Harmless, Fremantle Press, 2013
Beneath the Bloodwood Tree, Allen & Unwin, 2008
Road Story, Allen & Unwin, 2005
Selected Shorter Works
Novella
Award-winning fiction published in Griffith Review 66: The Light Ascending, 2019.
Essay
Originally given as a public lecture as part of RMIT's Present Tense series in Melbourne, this developed essay was published in The Sydney Review of Books in 2017.
Short story
This short story, adapted from one of the Jataka Tales in the Theravada Buddhist canon, was published in the inaugural edition of The Monthly in 2005.
Literary Awards
2020
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards for Non Fiction
Highly commended for 'The Thinking Woman'
2019
Griffith Review Novella Project VII
Winner for 'Instructions for a Steep Decline'
2006
Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book (SE Asia & South Pacific)
Shortlisted for 'Road Story'
2005
West Australian Premier's Book Award for Fiction
Shortlisted for 'Road Story'
2004
The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award
Winner for 'Road Story'
Selected Fellowships
Appointed Honorary Fellow in Writing, University of Iowa, 2017.
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Appointed Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow, RMIT University, 2015-2019
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