Her second novel, Jean Harley was Here, was shortlisted for the Readings Prize for New Fiction and a third novel is Little Bit, a work of autofiction.
She’s the author of six poetry collections and one verse novel, and the editor of Shaping the Fractured Self: Poetry of Chronic Illness and Pain, winner of the Mascara Literary Avant Garde Award for Best Anthology and read in disability circles around the world. She’s won the Island Nonfiction Prize and been shortlisted for ABR’s Calibre Prize with essays on art and illness, and she received a major Arts Fellowship from Arts South Australia to write more.
Her work has been chosen for the prestigious Griffith Review Novella Project, and twice she’s been shortlisted for the Newcastle Poetry Prize. She’s been awarded fellowships and residencies at Varuna, Bundanon, the Gough Whitlam Centre, The Anderson Centre in the US and the Keesing Studio in Paris, and she’s presented at Byron and Melbourne Writers Festivals, Queensland Poetry Festival and Poetry on the Move.
She is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the J M Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide.
