Authors and Artists

John Rainford was born and educated in the United Kingdom. After three years in the British Mercantile Marine he came to Australia at the age of twenty. Here he worked in shipbuilding in Newcastle and Sydney before moving into trade unions, first ... Full profile

A resident of Fremantle for twenty years, Mark lives in tiny Greenwell Point on New South Wales’ south coast. Full profile

Andrew Relph is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist who lives and works in Perth. Full profile

When Jim Richards left the British army to join a modern-day gold rush in the early 1990s, he had no language skills, no money and no idea. Jim has prospected and mined in some of the maddest, most dangerous places on earth, where isolation, ... Full profile

Tim Richards is a freelance travel writer whose work has appeared in publications around the world, including Lonely Planet’s guidebooks. He fell into travel writing after living and teaching in Egypt and Poland, and is especially drawn to t... Full profile

Georgia Richter has an MA (Creative Writing) from the University of Western Australia and is an IPEd Accredited Editor. She has taught creative writing, professional writing and editing at the universities of Melbourne and Western Australia, as we... Full profile

Brendan Ritchie is a writer and filmmaker from Fremantle, WA. In 2015 he published his debut novel, Carousel, and was awarded a PhD in Creative Writing. Carousel has been critically acclaimed and is longlisted for the 2016 Gold Inky Award. Th... Full profile

Dr Lynn Roarty is a Research Fellow at Curtin University. Her professional background includes working in various positions in the public sector, as a teacher, and in research, and she has an academic background in women’s studies, education, and ... Full profile

Scottish-born Diana Roberts is an independent art historian-curator with international experience in collections, exhibitions and gallery management. A graduate of the Universities of Edinburgh, Manchester and Murdoch, she has worked in national m... Full profile

Rachel Robertson lectures in professional writing and publishing at Curtin University. Her fiction and essays have been published in The Best Australian Essays, Australian Book Review, Griffith Review and Island. Her essay ‘Reaching One Thou... Full profile

Deborah Robertson was born in Bridgetown, Western Australia, in 1959. She studied at Curtin University, and began teaching in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Murdoch University. Full profile

Jean Robins is a Sydney-trained potter who settled in Perth in 1967. She became an active member of the Fremantle Arts Centre community and was awarded the inaugural Crafts Fellowship in 1974 and was potter in residence in 1975. She is represented... Full profile

Melanie Rodriga is a film-maker and academic. She has directed and executive produced eight feature films, with the most recent, Pinch, winning Best feature Film – Drama at the 2015 WA Screen Awards. She has a PhD in screen arts from Mu... Full profile

Dr Emma Rooksby was born in Perth and now divides her time between Canberra and Wollongong. Her poems have been published in Australian journals and newspapers including Blue Dog, Going Down Swinging, Eureka Street and Famous Reporter. She has a D... Full profile

Zan Ross has published poetry in various Australian literary journals. Her publications include B-Grade and Je Ne Sais Quoi, a chapbook. Full profile

Dyann Ross works for the Queensland Department of Health as a Mental Health Clinical Educator. She teaches at the University of the Sunshine Coast and holds an Adjunct position with Edith Cowan University as part of her research and writing activi... Full profile

Since the mid-1970s Bruce Russell has won a number of awards and prizes for his short fiction and is represented in Fiction 88, an anthology of stories chosen by Frank Moorhouse for ABC Books. Bruce grew up in Sydney and in the early seventies liv... Full profile

Tracy Ryan was born and grew up in Western Australia. She has worked at various jobs in libraries, bookselling, editing, community journalism and university teaching. She has a BA in English from Curtin University and a BA (Hons) in French from th... Full profile

Jan Ryan’s interest in overseas Chinese and settler Chinese has led to extensive study and lecturing in China, Hong Kong, England and South Africa. Her work in South Africa explored the place of Chinese and Indian minorities in that country&... Full profile

Born in New Jersey in the United States, Dr John Charles Ryan survived a hodgepodge of professional callings and spent many seasons of his life just walking: from Mexico to Canada, along the Pacific Crest Trail; from the American South to the Nort... Full profile