About me:
I am currently an emerging author and freelance writer. 

In December 2013, I self-published my debut novel When Rosa Came Home a month before turning 50. This book was short-list for the 2015 South Australian Readers and Writers People's Choice Award. 

My draft next book, Where the Fruit Falls, was short-listed for the 2017 Richell Prize. This novel explores themes such as identity, colonisation and racism in 1950-70s Australia. It was also accepted into Hardcopy 2018. I was awarded a scholarship to participate in this professional development program for writers. 

I hope to complete this manuscript, and start on my next one, during my time in Ceduna as a writer in residence. (Ceduna is a remote town on the far west coat of South Australia. I will be working with the community there over the next four weeks).

In addition to working on manuscripts, I sometimes add to my blog and write non-fiction pieces. I have had work published in Al Jazeera, IndigenousX, NITV, Meanjin and Guardian Australia. See links on my blog and muck rack page.

My current writing goals are:

• Finish editing my next novel - Where the Fruit Falls.
• Develop a series of novelettes - The Cosmographer's Brother, The Last Dodo's Cousin and The Siren's Sister - to be collectively be called Bestiarium Terra Nullius: peculiar beings of uninhabited southern lands. 
• Write a dark comedy novella - Dingo Creek Literary Festival.
• More opinion pieces and educative works, to post here and on my blog.

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