Josephine Wilson(Australia)
She has written fiction, essays, poetry and reviews. Her novels are Cusp (UWAP 2005) and Extinctions (UWAP 2016). Extinctions won the inaugural Dorothy Hewitt Award in manuscript, the 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Colin Roderick Award. Extinctions was nominated for the 2017 Prime Minister’s Literary Award. It is forthcoming with Serpent’s Tail (UK) and Tin House (USA).
Josephine has a PhD from UWA, and has taught as a sessional at Murdoch, UWA and Curtin University. Her essay “Once Upon a time, in China” explores international adoption, and is forthcoming in The Dangerous Book of Mothers, UWAP (2018).