Authors and Artists

Yvette Walker is an Australian writer of Irish ancestry. Yvette has a BA (Honours) and a PhD from Curtin University. She was a writing fellow at Varuna, the Writers House, in 2009 and again in 2011. Her debut novel, Letters to the End of Love (UQP... Full profile

Jessica Walton is a picture book author, teacher, parent, daughter of a trans parent, and proud queer, disabled woman. She wrote Introducing Teddy: A Gentle Story About Gender and Friendship to help explain gender identity in a simple, positive wa... Full profile

Dr McKenzie Wark is an Australian born writer and scholar. He has employed experimental writing techniques in some of his works and has taught at both Eugene Lang College and the New School for Social Research. Full profile

Dave Warner is an author, musician and screenwriter. His first novel City of Light won the Western Australian Premier’s Book Award for Fiction, and Before it Breaks (2015) the Ned Kelly Award for best Australian crime fic... Full profile

Christine Watson grew up in Castle Hill, Sydney. With a BA in history and European languages from Sydney University she joined the former Department of Aboriginal Affairs under the Whitlam government. She retrained in fine art, anthropology and mu... Full profile

Katy Watson-Kell was born in Scotland and moved to Western Australia when she was ten. After leaving high school on a whim, she spent the next ten years talking her way into a smorgasbord of occupations including golf course attendant, handbag sel... Full profile

Two activities play a big part in the lives of Kim and Malcolm Wells: starting each day with an early morning visit to a local beach (and a coffee) and trekking to wondrous and sometimes remote places. It is fitting, therefore, that they met at t... Full profile

Two activities play a big part in the lives of Kim and Malcolm Wells: starting each day with an early morning visit to a local beach (and a coffee) and trekking to wondrous and sometimes remote places. It is fitting, therefore, that they met at t... Full profile

David Whish-Wilson was born in Newcastle, NSW, but grew up in Singapore, Victoria and WA. He left Australia aged eighteen to live for a decade in Europe, Africa and Asia, where he worked as a barman, actor, street seller, petty criminal, labourer,... Full profile

Terri-ann White has published widely, including a short story collection, Night and Day, and a novel, Finding Theodore and Brina. She lectured in the University of Western Australia Department of English from 1996 until she was seconded in 1999 to... Full profile

Terry Whitebeach is a Tasmanian writer who lived and worked in WA in the 1990s. She writes in a number of genres including young adult novels, poetry, radio plays for ABC Airplay and biography. Full profile

Mike Williams was born in England in 1948 and came to Australia in 1963. He has had a variety of occupations including working in a bookshop in Perth. He lives with his partner, also a writer, her two sons, a housebound cat and a rotund spaniel. H... Full profile

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As well as being one of the explorers on Robert Falcon Scott’s South Pole exploration teams, Edward Wilson was a keen artist and naturalist. Watercolours of Wilson’s, from the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, are featured in A Tale For... Full profile

Thomas M. Wilson has spent his life writing about the human relationship with our home: the natural world. He has a PhD in Literature and the Environment, and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. As well as being ... Full profile

Tim Winton was born in Perth, Australia, in 1960. A four-time winner of the Miles Franklin Award and shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize, Winton is a bestselling author whose work has been adapted for the stage and screen and is widely translated. Full profile

Richard Woldendorp was born in Utrecht, Holland, in 1927. He has lived in Australia since 1951. He was named Australian Photographer of the Year for his landscape photography and now specialises in photographing the Australian landscape from the a... Full profile

Dianne Wolfer is the acclaimed author of many books for teenagers and young readers spanning multiple genres. Her book Lighthouse Girl served as inspiration for PIAF’s The Giants and features in events commemorating the centenary o... Full profile

Adrian Wood graduated from Curtin University in 1995 and has worked there in various roles, including as Creative Writing tutor, from 1996 to the present. He has had work published in the university’s student writing journal, and in Westerly. Full profile

Donny Woolagoodja was born in 1947 at Kunmuya Mission in the far north-west of the Kimberley. While he was still a child, the community relocated to Mowanjum, just out of Derby, and well south of Worrorra homelands. As a teenager he watched the ol... Full profile

Dr Jacqueline Wright worked for many years as a teacher and linguist in the Pilbara and Kimberley on Indigenous Australian Aboriginal language, interpreting and cultural programs. In 2000 she took on the regional literature position promoting and ... Full profile

Sue Wyatt was born in Kalgoorlie in 1952. She studied graphic design at James Street Art School in Perth. Sue served three terms on the ATSIC Wongutha Regional Council, has worked in primary and high schools and has nursed in Laverton. Full profile