I’ve worked with words all of my working life, but mostly in very prosaic and practical ways. I’m now drawing on my lifelong love of stories and novels to write my own short stories, essays and a novel of historical fiction, tentatively called A Singular Provenance. 

CV 

‘Just One Night,’ Shortlisted in 2018 Newcastle Short Story Award, publication in anthology forthcoming.

‘On the Trail of a Ghost.’ Landscapes. http://ro.ecu.edu.au/landscapes/vol8/iss1/11

‘Just One Night,’ Shortlisted in 2017 Margot Manchester Memorial Short Story Award, Society of Women Writers, Tasmania

‘Greens Pool’, Highly Commended in 2017 Trudy Graham/Julie Lewis Literary Award for Prose

‘An Apprenticeship,’ Second place in the Memoir Category, 2017 Eastwood Hills Literary Competition 

‘Baby Booms and Fallow Wombs: The False History of the Childfree’. Overland, 29 August 2016 https://overland.org.au/2016/08/baby-booms-and-fallow-wombs-the-false-history-of-child-free/

‘The Plausibility Gap in the Denial of Climate Science’.  5 July 2011, ABC Drum Online http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-01/hodgsonclimate/2778378