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Academic works

I hold a BA (Hons, Australian Literature) from the University of Sydney (1993), an MA (English, Creative Writing) from the University of Melbourne (2005) and a PhD from Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne (2010). I also completed a year of post-doctoral research at Blekinge Tekniska Högskolan, Karlskrona, Sweden (2011).

Bonfire of the Vanity Presses (2010)

My PhD thesis, entitled Bonfire of the Vanity Presses: Self-Publishing in the Field of Australian Poetry, was approved in 2010, and was undertaken at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia between 2005 and 2009. Here’s the abstract: This thesis…

Southern Review 38.1 (2005)

In 2005, Denise Meredyth and I, wearing our Swinburne hats, co-edited a special issue of Southern Review: Communication, Politics & Culture. Southern Review is a fully-refereed interdisciplinary journal of communication, politics and culture published by RMIT University, Melbourne. The theme…

Marzipan: A Confection (2004)

Marzipan: A Confection is the title of my Master of Arts (Research) Thesis in Creative Writing, undertaken at the University of Melbourne between 2002 and 2004. The Thesis, a 30,000 word novella, describes the invention of marzipan in a fictional…