CONTRIBUTORS

REBEKAH CLARKSON’S short stories have been recognised in major awards, shortlists and independent publications in Australia and overseas. She was runner-up in the 2013 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. She is currently completing a PhD at the University of Adelaide, where she also teaches.

TEGAN BENNETT DAYLIGHT is a fiction writer and critic. Her books include the novels Bombara, What Falls Away and Safety, and she is working on a collection of short stories. She lectures in creative writing in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney.

GILLIAN ESSEX has won several awards for her short stories. Her poetry has appeared in 21D and the Friendly Street Poets anthology. Her non-fiction articles have featured in the Age, Green Magazine, the Weekly Review and on Radio National. She teaches creative writing and is also a singer-songwriter.

DELIA FALCONERS is the author of two novels, The Service of Clouds and The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers and Selected Stories and the memoir Sydney. Her fiction and non-fiction have been widely anthologised, including in the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature. She is a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Technology, Sydney.

KATE GRENVILLE is the author of many award-winning novels, including The Secret River (Christina Stead Prize), The Idea of Perfection (Orange Prize) and Lilian’s Story (Australian/Vogel Literary Award). The Secret River was also shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Man Booker.

SONYA HARTNETT’S award-winning novels include Of a Boy (Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Age Book of the Year), Thursday’s Child (Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize) and Surrender (Victorian Premier’s Literary Award). In 2008 she became the first Australian recipient of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.

KAREN HITCHCOCK is the author of the award-winning short-story collection Little White Slips and Dear Life: On caring for the elderly (Quarterly Essay 57) and a regular contributor to the Monthly. She is a staff physician in acute and general medicine at a large city public hospital, and has a PhD in English and creative writing.

CATE KENNEDY is the author of the short-story collections Dark Roots and Like a House on Fire, and the novel The World Beneath, as well as several poetry collections and a travel memoir. Her work has appeared in many publications and anthologies, including the Harvard Review and the New Yorker. She edited The Best Australian Stories 2010 and 2011, and Australian Love Stories.

ANNA KRIEN is the author of Night Games: Sex, power and sport, which won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, Into the Woods: The battle for Tasmania’s forests and Us and Them: On the importance of animals (Quarterly Essay 45). Anna’s work has been published in the Monthly, the Age, the Big Issue, The Best Australian Essays, Griffith REVIEW, Voiceworks, Going Down Swinging, Colors, Frankie and Dazed & Confused.

ISABELLE LI’S work has appeared in Southerly, Sleepers Almanac, UTS Writers’ Anthology, New Australian Stories, The Trouble with Flying and Cha. Her script ‘Mooncake and Crab’ was made into a short film, which premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival. Isabelle has translated a collection of poems, Almost Everything I Know, into Chinese. She is completing a Doctor of Creative Arts at the University of Western Sydney.

JOAN LONDON is the author of two prize-winning collections of stories, Sister Ships and Letter to Constantine (published together as The New Dark Age). Her first novel, Gilgamesh, was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, won the Age Fiction Book of the Year, and was longlisted for the Orange Prize and the Dublin Impac Award. Her second, The Good Parents, won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction. In 2014 she published The Golden Age.

FIONA MCFARLANE has been published in Zoetrope: All-Story, Southerly and the New Yorker. The Night Guest, her debut novel, won the Voss Literary Prize and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award in 2014.

GILLIAN MEARS’S most recent novel, Foal’s Bread, won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award in 2012. Her fable The Cat with the Coloured Tail will be published by Walker Books in September 2015.

FAVEL PARRETT’s first novel, Past the Shallows, was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. She was awarded the Antarctic Arts Fellowship, allowing her to travel to Antarctica to complete research for her next novel, When the Night Comes.

ALICE PUNG is the author of Unpolished Gem, Her Father’s Daughter and Laurinda, and the editor of the anthology Growing Up Asian in Australia. Alice’s work has appeared in the Monthly, Good Weekend, the Age and Meanjin.

PENNI RUSSON writes, edits and teaches creative writing. She is the author of several novels for young adults, including the Undine trilogy and Only Ever Always, which won the Ethel Turner Prize, the Aurealis Award (Young Adult) and the WA Premier’s Literary Award (Young Adult).

MANDY SAYER has published twelve books of non-fiction and fiction. Her awards include the Australian/Vogel Award (for Mood Indigo), the National Biography Award (Dreamtime Alice), the Age Non-fiction Book of the Year (Velocity) and the Davitt Award for Young Adult Fiction (The Night has a Thousand Eyes). ‘The Meaning of Life’ is excerpted from her forthcoming novel Rules for Camping.

BRENDA WALKER has written four novels, including The Wing of the Night, which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and won the Nita B. Kibble Award in 2006 and the Asher Award in 2007. She is Winthrop Professor in English and cultural studies at the University of Western Australia.

TARA JUNE WINCH is the author of award-winning novel Swallow the Air. Her short stories and essays have appeared in many publications, including McSweeney’s and Vogue. Her body of work was awarded the Inernational Rolex Mentor and Protégé Award.

CHARLOTTE WOOD is the author of four acclaimed novels: Animal People, The Children, The Submerged Cathedral and Pieces of a Girl, and the non-fiction collection of writings on the meaning of cooking, Love & Hunger. Her fifth novel will be published in late 2015.