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My
first book of fiction, How to Conceive of a Girl,
was published in Australia in 1996 by Vintage (Random House), and a
book of poetry, Things in a Glass Box,
came out in 1994 as part of the SCARP/Five Islands New Poets series.
Apart from that I've also written essays and various hybrid-things ("cultural
criticism" or "ficto-criticism" for want of better terms)
for academic and literary journals and magazines and newspapers like
the Age, and have been an occasional contributor for many years
to ABC Radio programs
such as Radio Eye, Life Matters, The Listening Room, Poetica
and The Comfort Zone.
A
few years ago I produced a double CD of my radio pieces called Body
of Words, and a CD-rom,
Box of Words. Box of Words contains my earlier books,
plus a new collection of previously-published essays called Heart,
Mouth.
Over
the years I've had support from the Literature Board of the Australia
Council, the wonderful Varuna
Writers' Centre, and the University of Ballarat. I've also received
a few awards -- such as the Age Short Story Award in 1994; the inaugaral
Dinny
O'Hearn Fellowship in 1995; and How to Conceive of a Girl
was runner-up in the 1997 Steele Rudd Award.
I
love performing and talking about my work, and have done so at lots
of places including the Adelaide Festival, the Sydney Festival, various
conferences, bookshops, libraries and to students and teachers.
After
living in Sydney for fifteen years, in 1997 I moved back to Melbourne,
and since January 2000 I've been living in a small country town in Victoria.
I'm currently working on a novel called A Short (Personal) History
of the Bra and its Contents. Part of this novel was recently submitted,
with an exegesis, for my Phd at the
University of Ballarat
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The Body as Fiction /
Fiction as a Way of Thinking
(PhD
thesis )
Cosmetic
Surgery, 'Makeover Culture'
and the Privatisation of Bodies
(or 'Are Wrinkles Really All That Ugly?' The Age, October 2006)
'From
the "Primitive Droop"
to the "Civilised Thrust":
Towards a Politics of Body Modification'
'D-Cups, Groin Guards & Supermodels: Writing the Body into History'
Australian Humanities Review -
(note that this one is in two parts)
Reality
Television: Big Brother is Watching / Watching 'Big Brother'
in Australia
(ABC Radio National,
May 2003)
'Bewitched
-- Samantha
every witch way but lose'
about the 1960s sitcom
(The Age, June 2005)
'Another
Day, Another Dollar' -- ability, disability, and the way welfare policy
affects all of us (The Age, May 2005)
'I'd like
to have permission to be postmodern, but I'm
not sure
who to ask..'
Jacket magazine
(about my experiences with
copyright law)
'Reconciliation, &
Those Two Little Words'
Australian Humanities Review,
Sept. 2000
'Xed
Again:
or whatever happened
to the Seventies?'
Ozlit - reprinted from Australian Book Review, December 1995,
about being part of the generation just younger than the baby boomers.
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