Authors and Artists

Through no fault of his own Simon Adams was in born in Auckland in 1968. Following a peripatetic childhood in New Zealand, Canada and the United States, his family moved to Australia, where he has lived for the majority of his life. After working ... Full profile

Marlane Ainsworth lives with her family on a small wetlands property in the south-west of Western Australia. She works in a bookshop and writes children’s novels. Her husband and son play the drums so it’s just as well they have no nea... Full profile

Norman Aisbett won the Graham Perkin Award (Australian Journalist of the Year) in 1981 for his reports about the rescue of Vietnamese boat people. He has been a journalist for more than 40 years. Full profile

Graham Akhurst is an Aboriginal writer and academic hailing from the Kokomini of northern Queensland. His creative nonfiction and poetry have been published widely. Graham received an Australia Council grant for the creation of new work to complet... Full profile

Yuot A. Alaak is an emerging Western Australian writer whose short story ‘The lost girl of Pajomba’ was anthologised by Margaret River Press in Ways of Being Here. He was also a panelist at the 2017 Perth Writers Festival and his memoi... Full profile

David Allan-Petale is a writer living between bush and sea north of Perth, Western Australia. He worked for many years as a journalist in WA with the ABC and internationally with BBC World. Written while travelling the globe over five years, ... Full profile

Hassan Al Nawwab was born in Iraq in 1960 and came to Australia in 2003 with his wife and children. He is a poet and journalist who has published three volumes of poetry and two plays in Arabic, and has received numerous awards for his poems. Poem... Full profile

Megan Anderson is an artist and writer based in Fremantle. She paints under the guise of Hangdog Art, and has been a feature writer for The West Australian newspaper, editor of Scoop magazine, and a travel writer for various publications around Au... Full profile

Natalie Andrews was born in Scotland and has lived in Australia for over thirty years. Her studies at Curtin University of Technology (BA English) as a mature age student led to a diverse career, including a position as production/administration m... Full profile

Frances Andrijich is one of Australia's finest photographers. Her extraordinary images: whether captured in the townships of South Africa, the Croatian countryside or Indonesian slums, have earned her a growing national and international reputatio... Full profile

Paola Anselmi is a Perth-based curator and arts writer who manages public and private art collection development and public art projects. Paola regularly contributes to Australian arts publications on Western Australian contemporary art practice a... Full profile

Rosalind Appleby graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Music Performance (clarinet). She writes regular music reviews and feature articles covering a wide range of jazz, world and classical music. She has contribut... Full profile

Wayne Ashton was born to British and Pakistani parents in Karachi, leaving there at five, and then was brought up in many corners of the world: Chittagong, Paris, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, Lagos, London, Perth and Sydney. His work spans painting, ink dr... Full profile

Aśka is an energetic illustrator, storyteller and science communicator who is a passionate advocate for visual literacy. She has illustrated ten published books and is a regular contributor to The School Magazine and other children’s publica... Full profile

Michelle Aung Thin was born in Rangoon the same year as the coup d’état (1962) and brought up in Canada; she now lives in Melbourne. The Monsoon Bride, her first novel, was shortlisted for the Unpublished Manuscript Fellowship of the ... Full profile

Born in Brisbane, Kate Auty is a graduate of the University of Melbourne (Arts (Hons)/Law), Monash University (Masters in Environmental Science) and La Trobe University (PhD in Law and Legal Studies). She has worked as a lawyer for the Victorian A... Full profile

Barry Avery was born in Luanshya, Zambia, attended school in Zimbabwe and studied journalism at Rhodes University in South Africa. He now lives and works in Perth. Full profile

Sean E. Avery is an internationally acclaimed sculptor, author and illustrator best known for his animal sculptures made from CDs and electronic waste, some of which are featured in the SciTech (Perth) and Ripley’s Believe It or Not (USA) ex... Full profile