Authors and Artists

Amra Pajalic is an award-winning author, an editor and a teacher. Her debut novel The Good Daughter (Text Publishing, 2009) won the 2009 Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Civic Choice Award, and was also shortlisted in the Victorian Premier&r... Full profile

Maria Papas has published stories and essays in various journals including TEXT, Griffith Review, Axon and The Letters Page. She holds a PhD from the University of Western Australia. In 2020, the creative component of this PhD won the City of Frem... Full profile

Charmaine Papertalk-Green was born in 1962 at Eradu railway siding on the Greenough River between Mullewa and Geraldton in Western Australia. Her mother is Margaret Green (nee Papertalk) of the Wajarri and her father is Charlie Green of the Bardimia. Full profile

Danny Parker has been an actor, a nurse, an undertaker and a drama teacher. The youngest of six children, Danny grew up with a family competing for airtime at the dinner table. His memories of the stories told and the laughter ringing out as one s... Full profile

Glyn Parry was born in the north-east of England. For some years he taught high school English and was a teacher-librarian. Glyn has been a ministerial appointment to the State Library Board of WA, the National Advisory Council of the ABC, and the... Full profile

Chris Pash’s book The Last Whale grew from his experiences as a cadet reporter at the Albany Advertiser in WA’s south in the 1970s. He later was a foreign correspondent, bureau chief and editor before falling into the business side of ... Full profile

1927 – 2020 W.J. Peasley was born in the central west of New South Wales and spent his boyhood on his father’s farm. While working as a flying doctor in Western Australia he developed a strong interest in Indigenous history. He p... Full profile

Joanna Penglase is the co-founder of Care Leavers Australia Network (CLAN) the national support and advocacy body for care survivors, which was instrumental in establishing the Senate Inquiry into Children in Institutional Care. In 2007 she was aw... Full profile

Glen Phillips has taught for over forty years in the tertiary sector and, since its foundation in 1992, at the Edith Cowan University in Perth. Currently an Adjunct Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow and Director of the International Cent... Full profile

Margaret Pieroni is a Western Australian artist and botanist. Full profile

Dr Marcella Polain was born in Singapore and immigrated to Perth when she was two years old, with her Armenian mother and Irish father. She has a background in theatre and screen writing, and has lectured in the Writing program at Edith Cowan Univ... Full profile

Carolyn Polizzotto was born in Manly, New South Wales, in 1948. She graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1970 and completed her Doctorate at the University of London in 1975. Since settling in Western Australia in 1977, she has developed ... Full profile

With a broad background in technology, psychology and law, Neil Porter brings a unique blend of skills and expertise to his role as founding member and co-chair of the National Australian Positive Schools Initiative. Neil has been instrumental in ... Full profile

Rene Powell was born in 1948 in the Warburton Ranges, in the Central Desert of Western Australia. Her people are the Ngaanyatjarra. Removed from her family at the age of four, she grew up at Mount Margaret Mission and then Kurrawang Mission where ... Full profile

Antonella was born in Western Australia to Italian migrant parents. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English, with a major in Literature Language and Culture and a minor in Film and Television. Over the years she has worked on numerous film, music an... Full profile

David Price is a Western Australian educator who grew up in the small town of Carnarvon in the 1960s. He has been a teacher, principal and Director of Schools in many parts of the state. Although he now lives in Perth, David has long been intrigue... Full profile

Alice Pung is the award-winning author of Unpolished Gem, Her Father’s Daughter and Laurinda, and the editor of Growing Up Asian in Australia and My First Lesson. Her latest book is On John Marsden: Writers on Writers, and she is an Ambassad... Full profile