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, Western Australia.

Biography

Wilson was born in

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, England, and came to live in Australia with her family at the age of six. She has a Masters of Philosophy from the

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and a PhD from

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(UWA). She writes essays, poetry and fiction. In September 2017, Wilson won the Miles Franklin Award for her second novel, ''Extinctions'' ( UWA Publishing, 2016). This book had won the inaugural Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript in 2016. It also won the 2017

Colin Roderick Award The Colin Roderick Award is presented annually by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at Queensland's James Cook University for "the best book published in Australia which deals with any aspect of Australian life". It was first presente ...

, and was shortlisted for the 2017

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and literary theory at Murdoch University. She has been a sessional teacher at UWA and Curtin University, lecturing in performance studies, creative writing, and the history of art and design. Wilson was a writer-in-residence at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs (2019), and an Asialink resident in Shanghai (2018).

Bibliography

Plays

*''The Geography of Haunted Places'' (1994) in Allen, Richard and Pearlman, Karen ''Performing the Unnameable'', Sydney: Currency Press. *''Customs'' (1998)

Novels

* ''Cusp, UWA Publishing'' (2005) * ''Extinctions, UWAP'' (2016)

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Australian women novelists Academic staff of Curtin University English emigrants to Australia Writers from Perth, Western Australia Miles Franklin Award winners University of Western Australia alumni {{Australia-writer-stub