Authors and Artists

David Caddy was born in 1962. He worked for a number of years in computing, but changed to a primary school teacher who writes madly in the holidays. Favourite Food: Mashed spud with a dash of milk, a sprinkle of salt, and loads of butter, pepper ... Full profile

Caroline Caddy was born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1944 and spent her childhood in the United States and Japan. Since then, she has lived much of her life in Western Australia, raised two children, published several books of poetry, received ... Full profile

Karin Calvert-Borshoff has decades of experience as a photographer, operating across a range of formats and genres. She has travelled widely, living and working in Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, Malaysia and Singapore. She enjoys photograp... Full profile

Eoin Cameron was born in Mount Gambier in 1951, the second of ten children. He worked as a farm labourer and roustabout in shearing teams in the Great Southern; did a stint in a salmon fishing team at Parry’s Inlet and tried (unsuccessfully)... Full profile

Kelly Canby is an internationally published illustrator and author. Kelly was born in London, but has lived in Australia since the age of three, which is probably around the same age she started playing with pencils and crayons, and it was probabl... Full profile

Scott Cane was born in 1954 and grew up in southern Tasmania before moving to Canberra to study at The Australian National University. There he completed his PhD examining the relationship between human behaviour and material culture among Ngarti ... Full profile

Dr Leslie Cannold is a bio-ethicist, researcher, writer, commentator, Fellow at the Philosophy Department of the University of Melbourne, and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Gender and Medicine at Monash University. She is also the voca... Full profile

Sally Carbon, OAM, is a sport and health advocate. She has two degrees, been to two Olympics as a hockey player, is a strategic marketer consulting in private and government arenas, sits on many sporting, health and education boards in WA and Aust... Full profile

Sam Carmody is a novelist and WAM Award winning songwriter from Western Australia. His first novel, The Windy Season, won the 2017 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, and in 2018 he released his debut EP, Shadow in the Dream. He is currentl... Full profile

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Alan Carter was born in Sunderland, UK. He immigrated to Australia in 1991 and now lives just south of Hobart. He sometimes works as a television documentary director. In his spare time he plunges into the icy Tasmanian waters for fun. He is the a... Full profile

Catherine Carvell lives in Singapore with her husband, children and two pet turtles. Sometimes, Catherine talks to the turtles, but thankfully, they don’t talk back. Full profile

Martin Chambers was born in Perth, the son of two journalists. He is married and has two adult daughters. He has worked as a biologist, a tour guide, a whitewater rafting guide, a lab assistant, a publican, a kayak designer, a ferry skipper and in... Full profile

Tim Chappell grew up in Perth, Western Australia. Since graduating from medical school in 1990 he has worked in various hospitals and general practices across city and country Western Australia. He developed an interest in writing while studying m... Full profile

Born in 1935 in Guildford, Western Australia, Diana Chase spent much of her childhood with her mother’s family on dairy farms in the south-west, where she developed an early passion for all animals, particularly ducks, dogs and horses. A qua... Full profile

Wendy Chen is a Sydney-based writer who has appeared as an artist at the Emerging Writers’ Festival, National Young Writers’ Festival and Noted Festival. She is a co-host of the book blogger collective Lit CelebrAsian, and has been a s... Full profile

Nandi Chinna is a writer and environmental activist. Nandi has written a PhD on walking and the lost wetlands of Perth. Full profile

Emma Ciccotosto was born in Italy in 1926 and migrated to Western Australia with her parents in 1939. Emma: Recipe for Life is her story. In 1990 it was transformed into a highly successful stage production. She is a foundation member of the well-... Full profile

B.R. Coffey attended the Western Australian Institute of Technology and Murdoch University, and has taught Creative Writing. He has had work published in journals and anthologies and is the former publisher and managing director of Fremantle Press... Full profile

Born in 1963, Bernard Cohen’s stories and articles have appeared in newspapers, magazines and literary journals in Australia, New Zealand, the US and France, and he’s also produced radio work. Bernard was named as one of the Sydney Morning H... Full profile

Professor Catherine Cole is Chair of the RMIT University creative writing program. Her research explores creativity and the teaching of creative writing, particularly the ways in which memory and place have fashioned literary movements. She h... Full profile

In her pre-Australian life, Croatian-born Val Colic-Peisker was a teacher, translator and journalist at Croatian Press Agency (HINA), a freelance author, and radio producer and presenter at Croatian Radio in Zagreb during the 1980s and 1990s. She ... Full profile

Chris Coughran is an Honorary Research Fellow with the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. His writing has appeared in collections such as Reading America: New Perspectives on the American Novel (Cambridge Scholars ... Full profile

Moira Court grew up in the West Country, England. She emigrated to Australia in 2001 and now lives in the Perth Hills with her husband, daughter and fur children. An artist and illustrator, she predominantly works in printmaking and likes to chop ... Full profile

Suzanne Covich spent her early years in a large family in the country, leaving school unwillingly at thirteen to work in an old people’s home. After entering university in her mid-thirties as a single mother, she went on to obtain a PhD in Creativ... Full profile

Peter Cowan (1914–2002) was an award-winning, highly acclaimed writer with five novels, eight collections of short fiction and two biographies. He also edited or coedited seven anthologies and was coeditor of the literary magazine Westerly. Full profile

Carrie Cox is a journalist, author, tutor, mother and timid surfer, never all at once and not in that order. She grew up in Mackay, Queensland, and has also lived in Sydney, Brisbane and, since 2010, Perth. Carrie penned a weekly satirical column,... Full profile

Dr Shelley Craddock is a writer and passionate lover of the arts. While practising medicine she studied art history and volunteered for the Black Swan Prize for Portraiture. Her publications include book reviews for Australian Doctor magazine, the... Full profile

Daniel Craig (Matsu) was born and raised in Fremantle, Western Australia. He taught himself photography through immersion in Perth’s local music scene, capturing the raw energy of performing artists onstage, backstage and on the road. With a... Full profile

Ian Crawford was appointed to a position in Aboriginal studies at the Western Australian Museum in 1961. In 1962, he commenced research on cave paintings in the Kimberley, where he was befriended by the Aboriginal people whose stories are presente... Full profile

Noel Crusz was born in Sri Lanka and came to Australia in 1974. He trained in broadcasting at the BBC London and he broadcast on London’s Home Service programs and from Radio Eireann, Hilversum, Cologne and Berne. He was a newsreader for V... Full profile

Amanda Curtin is the author of novels Elemental (2013) and The Sinkings (2008), short story collection Inherited (2011), and the narrative non-fiction title Kathleen O'Connor of Paris. Elemental was shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier&r... Full profile