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‘Do you want to feel how it feels?’ Watching Stranger Things

Posted on July 3, 2022

I wrote for Meanjin about the trailer for Stranger Things, Season 4, Vol 2. Could there be a better allegory for the hell all the kids have survived these past

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Fire, Flood, Plague: Essays

Posted on 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

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I’ve published three novels, most recently Hold (2016), longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Voss Literary Prize. I grew up in Sydney and now live in the San Francisco Bay Area. My columns, reviews and essays appear regularly in The Sydney Morning Herald and other publications. I am a founder of The Stella Prize for Australian women’s writing, have a PhD in English from Rutgers University and have taught creative writing and literary studies at University of California, Berkeley and UTS, Sydney.

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