Moya CostelloMoya Costello has two collections of short creative prose and two short novels published (Kites in Jakarta, and Small Ecstasies; The Office as a Boat, and Harriet Chandler). She has critical and creative work in scholarly and literary journals and anhologies, and exhibition catalogues. She taught writing in the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Southern Cross University for nine years, and the School of Business and Tourism for five. She has been awarded Australian federal and state government writing grants and fellowships, has been a guest at the Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Bellingen, Yamba, Gold Coast, and Bryon writers festivals, and judged many writing competitions. She has also taught writing at Flinders, Canberra and Adelaide universities and been a Writer-in-Residence, Churchill Campus, Monash University. She has a PhD in creative writing from the University of Adelaide. She wrote this collection while living in the hinterland of Bryon Bay (traditional lands of the Bundjalung nation), and teaching writing at SCU as a lecturer, adjunct, and member of LabX, SCU's Environmental Arts and Humanities research cluster. pressed specimens was longlisted for the Laurence Sterne Prize. She currently lives on the lands of the Punnilerpanna/Palawa people (north coast of Tasmania, Australia). W www.moyacostello.com T @moya_costello I moyacostello_writer F facebook.com/MoyaCostelloWriter Read More Read Less