Authors by year of birth
Meme McDonald was born in south-west Queensland. She was educated by her mother until entering a boarding school at eight years of age. After high school she spent a year in New York on a cultural...
Patti Miller has worked as a teacher of life writing classes and founded the Life Stories Workshops. She has also worked as a manuscript editor.
Dorothy Porter lived in Sydney and the Blue Mountains until her move to Melbourne in 1993. She was educated at the Queenwood School for Girls in Sydney and graduated from Sydney University in 1975...
Mark 'Chopper' Read grew up in the Melbourne suburbs of Thomastown, Preston and Collingwood, became a ward of the state by age 14, and the leader of the Surrey Road gang in his mid-teens. During the...
Michael Rose has been a lecturer in journalism and a journalist who has worked for many media organisations in Australia and overseas. Between 1990 and 1995 he was co-ordinator of Journalism studies...
After working in Adelaide secondary schools during the 1970s, Rosemary Sorensen moved to Melbourne where she worked for some time as an advertising copy-writer. Attending Monash University during the...
A graduate in English Literature from Melbourne University, Lee Tulloch worked as a researcher in federal politics before her writing about fashion and popular culture began for Vogue Australia....
Hilary Beaton has worked in Australia and overseas as a writer, dramaturg and director for both stage and screen. She has been an Affiliate writer with the Queensland Theatre Company, a lecturer in...
Playwright, adaptor and screen writer.
Ken Gelder has an MA (Flinders University, South Australia) and a PhD (Stirling University, Scotland). He joined the University of Melbourne in 1989 and has since taught across the Literary Studies...
Michael Gow was educated at the University of Sydney. While at university he became involved with the Sydney University Dramatic Society, consolidating his career in drama. During the 1980s he was...
Jennifer Harrison completed her medical degree in 1979 and her psychiatrist training in 1990. She then went on to practise as a psychiatrist. She has lived for some time in the United States and New...
Linda Jaivin received a degree in Asian Studies and Political Science from Brown University. She then travelled to the Far East, living and working in Taiwan (1977-1979), Hong Kong (1979-1985), and...
Noëlle Janaczewska has written primarily for performance, as a dramatist, librettist and scriptwriter for radio and screen. She has incorporated bi-lingual writing into her works. Janaczewska...
Gail Jones was educated at the University of Western Australia (UWA), later joining the staff as an Associate Professor in the English Department there. In 2001, she won The Australian University...
Daniel Keene, a theatre director and dramatist, has written for the theatre, the cinema and the radio since 1979. With Ariette Taylor, Keene co-founded The Keene/Taylor Theatre Project in the late...
Peter Kirkpatrick studied at the universities of New South Wales and Sydney. In 1988 his PhD thesis on Sydney literary life in the 1920s was awarded the Australian Academy of the Humanities/Esso...
'Ouyang Malley is an unknown Australian poet whose first published poem is 'The Kingsbury Tales: the shirt'.'
(Author's biography for pseudonym, Cordite no.23, 2005.)Ouyang Yu...
Peter Rose grew up in Wangaratta, Victoria, a member of a well-known sporting family associated with the Australian Rules Football club, Collingwood.
Rose himself pursued a different...
Katherine Thomson is a dramatist who has also worked as a television scriptwriter. She began her career as an actor with the Australian Theatre for Young People in 1969, and was a founding member of...
Judith Beveridge was born in London, England in 1956 and migrated with her family to Australia in 1960, attending school in the western suburbs of Sydney. She studied communications at the University...
Anne Brewster completed Honours English at the University of Adelaide and a PhD on post-colonial literatures of South-East Asia at Flinders University. She taught at the South Australian Institute of...
Growing up in the Western suburbs of Sydney, Geraldine Brooks established pen pals across the world (an experience that contributed to her memoir Foreign Correspondence). Following her secondary...
Elizabeth Hodgson is a Wiradjuri woman, born in Wellington, New South Wales. She spent her childhood in a home for fair-skinned Aboriginal children in a Sydney suburb.
After spending many...
Jackie Huggins was awarded the Queensland Premier's Award for Excellence in Indigenous Affairs in 2000, and became a Member in the Order of Australia (AM) for services to the Indigenous community in...
Donna Rawlins spent her formative years in Melbourne, Victoria, and has worked as an illustrator, author, designer and editor. Rawlins began her career somewhere between photography, printing and...
As well as publishing poetry, fiction and non-fiction, Tony Birch has worked as a writer and curator in collaboration with photographers, film-makers and artists and also as a writer in the areas of...
Cave is a rock musician who has published his lyrics and a novel and has been involved in the writing of screenplays. He moved to London with his band The Birthday Party in 1990, and four years later...
The youngest of eight children, Phil Cummings was born at Port Broughton but grew up at Peterborough in the mid-north of South Australia, where his brothers worked on the railways. He worked as a...
In 2004, Michele Grossman continued to teach in Literary Studies and Professional Writing at Victoria University with a particular focus on contemporary fiction and literary theory, postcoloniality,...
Ghassan Hage was awarded a PhD from Macquarie University in 1988 for his thesis 'The Fetishism of Identity'. The thesis is a study of communal identification among Christian Lebanese during the...
Clara Law was born in Macau and raised in Hong Kong. She joined Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) in 1978 as an assistant producer, having graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a degree in...
Anthony Lawrence has written poetry and fiction. He left school at the age of sixteen, becoming first a jackeroo, and then travelling for several years before returning to New South Wales to become a...
