Columns – Kirsten Tranter

Articles Australia Columns

There are no unhappy lockdowns, but every lockdown is unhappy in its own way

May 8, 2022

I wrote about competitive pandemic trauma for The Guardian.

Anthologies Australia Columns Essays Inspiration On Writing TV

Fire, Flood, Plague: Essays

May 8, 2022

My essay ‘Black Flowers’ about the 1980s nuclear noir tv Edge of Darkness and finding a form of hope in climate catastrophe, published in Fire, Flood, Plague: Australian writers respond

Columns Inspiration On Writing

Teaching in the post-pandemic world: postcard from San Francisco

May 8, 2022

I wrote about my experience teaching high school English in San Francisco in the weird world of masks and remote learning:

Columns USA

Beasts of the Urban Wild

August 16, 2019

Two recent columns for Spectrum … My failures as a gardener — even lantana defeats me. My encounters with skunks, rats, deer, and other beasts of the North American urban

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My Very Own Wild Thing

May 31, 2019

I wrote about the challenges of parenting a three year old Wild Thing for Spectrum’s Mother’s Day issue.