Authors and Artists

Kate Lance grew up on Lake Macquarie near Newcastle, NSW, and has lived in Wales, Holland and England. Apart from writing and computing she reads obsessively, does yoga and occasionally some gardening. Full profile

Carly Lane is a Kalkadoon and would like to acknowledge Nyoongar people as the Traditional Owners of the South-West. Carly is the Curator of Indigenous Art at the Art Gallery of Western Australia and has undertaken research on Aboriginal art for h... Full profile

Justin Langer represented Australia in cricket from 1993 to 2007, playing 105 Test matches and scoring 7696 runs and 23 centuries. ‘I love writing. I get to put down my thoughts on paper — it’s a nice way to pass on knowledge and... Full profile

Andrew is an award-winning Australian writer, whose poems and stories have been published in numerous magazines and newspapers and represented in over seventy anthologies. His published books include ten collections of poetry, two collections of s... Full profile

Iris Lavell has degrees in English, Psychology, and Theatre and Drama Studies, a teaching qualification, and a PhD in English and Comparative Literature. She has written four one-act plays, which have been produced and performed in Perth, with one... Full profile

Julia Lawrinson grew up in the outer suburbs of Perth and left school at age fifteen, but completed a PhD in writing in 2004. She has held a variety of jobs, from checkout chick to roadhouse attendant to speechwriter for the Western Australian Dep... Full profile

Born in Singapore in 1961, Dr Simone Lazaroo moved to Western Australia with her family at a young age. She has won both national and international awards for her novels and been a guest speaker for various literary festivals and community events.... Full profile

Angela Leaney was born in Perth in 1968. In recognition of her enthusiasm and talent she received the coveted Hoechst National Textile Award on completion of her degree in fine arts at Edith Cowan University. She went on to exhibit her work in Mel... Full profile

Christopher Lee is a senior lecturer in English in the Department of Humanities and International studies at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba. He has published many articles on Australian literary culture, postcolonial identity and... Full profile

Penny Leech was born in England in 1947 and lives and works in Denmark, Western Australia. She is known for her ‘Found Objects’ paintings, a series which depicts often quirky and humorous narratives around a collection of items from bush and seash... Full profile

Joy Lefroy is passionate about our local stories. When she discovered West Australia last century, she found there were many stories to rival the ones she’d grown up with in the UK – and many myths too. Full profile

Mike Lefroy is a fifth generation Western Australian with a passion for history, in particular the history of his hometown of Fremantle. He worked in the local high school then moved to the HM Bark Endeavour Project in 1988 as the Education Office... Full profile

Natasha Lester is the award-winning author of If I Should Lose You and What is Left Over, After. The Age newspaper has described her as a 'remarkable Australian talent'. Natasha’s short stories have appeared in collections such as Australian... Full profile

In 1910, Levick was selected by Robert Scott as surgeon and zoologist on his second and last expedition to the Antarctic. He was assigned to the Eastern Party of six men who spent a year at Cape Evans and a year at the Victoria Land coast. Levick’... Full profile

Dr Michael Levitt MB BS (UWA), FRACS trained as a surgeon in Western Australia before pursuing subspecialty training in colorectal surgery at London’s St Mark’s and Royal Free hospitals. Since 1990 he has worked in WA as a specialist c... Full profile

Rebecca Lim is a writer, illustrator and lawyer based in Melbourne. Rebecca is the author of eighteen books, and has been shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award, Aurealis Award and Davitt Award f... Full profile

Born and educated in Western Australia, Bill Lines travelled the world, converted a Quaker chapel in Wales into a house and farm steaded in Vermont, USA, before he started writing about people and nature in Australia. Full profile

André Lipscombe has worked with artists, visual arts organisations, and community arts and collections in regional and metropolitan settings. He is an experienced educator, exhibition coordinator and project manager. André has also worked as Curat... Full profile

Jessica Lister is a descendant of the Minang and Goreng Noongar peoples of the south-west of Western Australia and works in culture, the arts and social enterprises with the organisation Whitelion. Full profile

Libby Lloyd set aside a successful career in social work to focus on the delights of travel . Travel began early: Libby migrated from England in 1951 and over-landed from Kathmandu to London in 1970. She has explored Bhutan, Laos, Cambodia, Vietna... Full profile

Madison Lloyd-Jones has been a lecturer and tutor at the University of Notre Dame Australia and a coordinator of the City of Fremantle’s Heritage Festival. Madison appears frequently in public lecture programs regarding the history of Wester... Full profile

Dr John Long is a paleontologist whose lengthy career has included positions in numerous universities and museums across Australia and America, including Head of Sciences at Museum Victoria. His research expeditions have taken him to Australia, An... Full profile

Karen Louise is an author and illustrator of children's books. Full profile

Pat Lowe was born in England and migrated to Australia in 1972. After a few years teaching in France and East Africa, Pat studied psychology and worked in prisons for over 30 years. Pat lived in the Great Sandy Desert for several years with her lo... Full profile

The daughter of a typographer, Brigid Lowry began her writing career by self-publishing two dreadful poems when she was eight. She spent her twenties living in a Buddhist community, veered into performance poetry in her thirties, and subsequently ... Full profile

Dr Tanja Luckins is a Melbourne historian and author who specialises in Australian Cultural History. She has worked for a number of universities including Deakin, La Trobe and the University of Melbourne, and has received funding from the Australi... Full profile

Dr Niall Lucy was an Australian writer, journalist and broadcaster who completed his PhD in English at the University of Sydney. He worked for academic journals, universities, newspapers and radio stations in both Sydney and Perth, and was a ... Full profile