FICTION
Books
The Double (and Other Stories), Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2013.
Individual stories
'Transition,' A Kind of Compass: Stories on Distance, ed. Belinda McKeon, Tramp Press, Dublin, 2015: 229-40.
'Three sisters,' Electric Literature (US) 111, 2 July 2014.
'Three sisters,' Stonecutter (US) 4 (2014).
‘Three sisters,’ Cracking the Spine: Ten Short Australian Stories and How they were Written, Spineless Wonders, Strawberry Hills (NSW), 2014: 29-39.
‘Paradise lost,’ The Australian, 23 December 2013: 12.
‘The obscene bird of night,’ Westerly 58.1 (2013): 225-231.
‘The double,’ Review of Australian Fiction 6.2 (2013): 1-12.
‘Three sisters,’ Australian Book Review 339 (2012): 45-9.
‘Hide,’ Mascara Literary Review 9 (2011).
‘La filosofia poetica de Roānkin’ (translated into Spanish by Jorge Salavert), Hermano Cerdo, March 2011.
‘A Roānkin philosophy of poetry,’ Australian Book Review 327 (2010): 46-8.
‘Death in the Andes,’ Southerly 70.1 (2010): 122-131.
‘To the grave,’ Hecate 36.1-2 (2010): 223-227.
‘The red wheelbarrow,’ Griffith Review 26 (2009): 217-227.
NONFICTION
‘Hide and Seek: Writing as Transgression,’ Resilience, Ultimo Press, Ultimo (NSW), 2022: 106-115.
‘I am a Child of Domestic Violence, and I am Breaking My Silence,’ The Guardian, 5 December 2021.
‘Writing and its Demons,’ Meanjin 78.3 (2019): 36-43.
‘Lessons learned from literature,’ Meanjin 69.3 (2010): 108-116.
‘Dentistry,’ HEAT 10 (2005): 39-49.
‘Swampland,’ Space: New Writing 1 (2004): 27-37.
POETRY
Books
Trigger Warning, UQP, St Lucia, 2021.
The End of the World, Giramondo Publishing, Artarmon, 2014.
Ghostly Subjects, Salt Publishing, London, 2009.
Narcissism, Whitmore Press, Geelong, 2005.
Individual poems
‘The Stranger,’ The Writing Mind: Creative Writing Responses to Images of the Living Brain, eds Julia Prendergast, Eileen Herbert-Goodall & Jen Webb, Recent Work Press, Canberra, 2023: 156-7.
‘Cigarette,’ The Footy Almanac, 1 March 2022.
‘Escalator,’ Wisconsin Review (US) 53.2 (2021): 94.
‘Waking in the Blue,’ The Footy Almanac, 30 November 2021.
‘Domesticated,’ Homings and Departures: Selected Poems from Contemporary China and Australia, eds Lucy Dougan & Paul Hetherington, trans Iris Fan Xing, Recent Work Press, Canberra, 2021: 178-181,
‘Dogs in Space,’ Fishing for Lighting: The Spark of Poetry, Sarah Holland-Batt, UQP, St Lucia (QLD), 2021: 195.
‘Waking in the Blue,’ Australian Poetry Journal 11.1 (2021): 89-90.
‘Unborn,’ What We Carry: Poetry on Childbearing, eds Ella Kurz, Simone King, Claire Delahunty, Recent Work Press, Canberra, 2021.
‘Seed,’ What We Carry: Poetry on Childbearing, eds Ella Kurz, Simone King, Claire Delahunty, Recent Work Press, Canberra, 2021.
‘Post-partum,’ What We Carry: Poetry on Childbearing, eds Ella Kurz, Simone King, Claire Delahunty, Recent Work Press, Canberra, 2021.
‘Goldilocks and Her Ghost,’ Inverted Syntax: The Fissured Tongue Series (US), 2 (2021).
‘Grieve, Repeat,’ Inverted Syntax: The Fissured Tongue Series (US), 2 (2021).
‘Night, Falling,’ Inverted Syntax: The Fissured Tongue Series (US), 2 (2021).
‘Happiness,’ Inverted Syntax: The Fissured Tongue Series (US), 2 (2021).
‘Dogs in Space,’ The Australian, 28 November 2020: 18.
‘Dogs in Space,’ The Anthology of Australian Prose Poetry, Melbourne University Press, 2020.
‘On Happiness,’ Meanjin 79: 2 (2020): 37.
‘Night: A Personal History,’ Chicago Quarterly Review 30 (2020): 236-8.
‘Night Pictures,’ in Nature, a song cycle for mezzo-soprano and ensemble by Andy Ford, 2019.
‘Messages from Medellin,’ Kenyon Review XLI: 6 (2019).
‘Subtopia,’ Australian Poetry Journal 9.1 (2019): 91.
‘Messages from Medellin, the Murder Capital,’ Griffith Review 65: Crime and Punishment (2019): 192-3.
‘Lullaby,’ #MeToo: Stories from the Australian Movement, ed. Miriam Sved, Christie Nieman, Maggie Scott, Natalie Kon-Yu, Picador, Sydney, 2019: 283-4.
‘Lift,’ foam:e 16 (2019).
‘Night, Falling,’ foam:e 16 (2019).
‘Scenes from a Documentary,’ Red Room Poetry 2019.
‘Waking in the Blue,’ Cordite Poetry Review 89 (2019).
‘Bed: A Domestic History,’ Connotation Press: An Online Artifact (US) X.3 (2019).
‘Baby Monitor,’ Connotation Press: An Online Artifact (US) X.3 (2019).
‘Lift,’ Connotation Press: An Online Artifact (US) X.3 (2019).
‘Teaching My Son Finnish,’ Australian Multilingual Writing Project 1 (2018).
‘Closet Mirror,’ Stilts 3 (2018).
‘Fractured States of America,’ Buying Online: Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2018, eds Sarah Day & Nathan Curnow, Hunter Writers Centre & the University of Newcastle, Newcastle, 2018: 39-43.
‘Dogged,’ Signs: The University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize 2018, eds Jen Webb & Donna Maree Hanson, Ipsi: International Poetry Studies Institute, Canberra, 2018: 33.
‘Lullaby,’ Rabbit 26 (2018): 66-68.
'Phone,' Island 154 (2018): 98.
'Cuckoo Clock,' Island 154 (2018): 99.
'Revisiting Chernobyl,' Cordite Poetry Review 86 (2018).
'Ragdoll Cat,' Meanjin 77.2 (2018): 14.
'Fridge,' The Weekend Australian Review, 26-28 May 2018.
'TV,' The Weekend Australian Review, 28-29 April 2018: 19.
'Curtains,' The Weekend Australian Review, 10-11 March 2018: 21.
‘Powering Down,’ SleazeMag, 11 November 2018.
‘Grieve, Repeat,’ SleazeMag, 11 November 2018.
‘Goldilocks Has Gone Missing,’ SleazeMag, 11 November 2018.
‘Happiness,’ SleazeMag, 11 November 2018.
‘Nox,' The Best Australian Poems 2017, ed. Sarah Holland-Batt, Black Inc, Collingwood (VIC), 146-7.
'Guilfoyle's Volcano,' Australian Poetry Journal 7.2 (2017); Red Room Poetry: New Shoots, 4 September 2017.
'The Bean Seller's Tale,' Australian Poetry Journal 7.2 (2017); Red Room Poetry: New Shoots, 4 September 2017.
'Ceiba insignis: While Silk Floss Tree,' Australian Poetry Journal 7.2 (2017); Red Room Poetry: New Shoots, 4 September 2017.
'Cereus peruvianis: Peruvian Apple or Cactus Apple,' Australian Poetry Journal 7.2 (2017); Red Room Poetry: New Shoots, 4 September 2017.
'Echinocactus grusonii: Golden Barrel Cactus,' Australian Poetry Journal 7.2 (2017); Red Room Poetry: New Shoots, 4 September 2017.
'Cleistocactus winteri: Golden Rat Tail,' Australian Poetry Journal 7.2 (2017); Red Room Poetry: New Shoots, 4 September 2017.
'Euphorbia caput-medusae: Medusa's Head,' Australian Poetry Journal 7.2 (2017); Red Room Poetry: New Shoots, 4 September 2017.
'Echinopsis spachiana: Torch Cactus,' Australian Poetry Journal 7.2 (2017); Red Room Poetry: New Shoots, 4 September 2017.
'Agave franzosini: Grey Ghost,' Australian Poetry Journal 7.2 (2017); Red Room Poetry: New Shoots, 4 September 2017.
'Agave victoriae: Royal Agave,' Australian Poetry Journal 7.2 (2017); Red Room Poetry: New Shoots, 4 September 2017.
‘Roca’ (translated into Spanish by Jorge Salavert), Downunder Literatura, 31 July 2017.
'Telefono' (translated into Spanish by Jorge Salavert), Revista Prometeo, 106-107 (2017): 178-9.
'Habitacion de hotel' (translated into Spanish by Jorge Salavert), Revista Prometeo, 106-107 (2017): 180.
'Nevera' (translated into Spanish by Jorge Salavert), Revista Prometeo, 180.
'Cruel,' Kenyon Review XXXIX.2 (2017): 86-7.
'Shattered Head,' Island 148 (2017): 45.
‘Argument,' The Best Australian Poems 2016, Black Inc, Collingwood (VIC), 160-1.
'Prosthetic,' Contemporary Australian Poetry, eds Martin Langford, Judith Beveridge, Judy Johnson & David Musgrave, Puncher & Wattmann, Glebe, 2016: 553.
'Convicts,' Contemporary Australian Poetry, eds Martin Langford, Judith Beveridge, Judy Johnson & David Musgrave, Puncher & Wattmann, Glebe, 2016: 553-4.
'Stalin Confesses,' Contemporary Australian Poetry, eds Martin Langford, Judith Beveridge, Judy Johnson & David Musgrave, Puncher & Wattmann, Glebe, 2016: 554-5.
'Foetal Movement,' Contemporary Australian Poetry, eds Martin Langford, Judith Beveridge, Judy Johnson & David Musgrave, Puncher & Wattmann, Glebe, 2016: 555.
'Протетски,' Антологија на современата австралиска поезија, eds Martin Langford, Judith Beveridge, Judy Johnson & David Musgrave, Puncher & Wattmann, Macedonia, 2016: 437.
'Осуденици,' Антологија на современата австралиска поезија, eds Martin Langford, Judith Beveridge, Judy Johnson & David Musgrave, Puncher & Wattmann, Macedonia, 2016: 438.
'Сталин признала,' Антологија на современата австралиска поезија, eds Martin Langford, Judith Beveridge, Judy Johnson & David Musgrave, Puncher & Wattmann, Macedonia, 2016: 439-40.
'Движење на фетусот,' Антологија на современата австралиска поезија, eds Martin Langford, Judith Beveridge, Judy Johnson & David Musgrave, Puncher & Wattmann, Macedonia, 2016: 439-40.
Daddy,’ Island 146 (2016): 96.
‘Argument,’ Island 146 (2016): 97.
‘Nox,’ Cordite, 1 August 2016.
‘Schornstein,’ Lichtungen (Austria) 145/ XXXVIII (2016): 102.
‘Strafgefangene,’ Lichtungen (Austria) 145/ XXXVIII (2016): 102.
‘Nächtliche Beköstigung,’ Lichtungen (Austria) 145/ XXXVIII (2016): 102.
‘Rock,’ Writing to the Wire, eds Dan Disney & Kit Kelen, UWA Press, Crawley (WA), 2016: 167.
‘Unborn,’ Double Dialogues 18 (2016).
‘Post-partum,’ Double Dialogues 18 (2016).
‘47 Degrees,’ Double Dialogues 18 (2016).
‘Night Feed,’ Double Dialogues 18 (2016).
‘The Arrivals,’ Double Dialogues 18 (2016).
‘Utopia,’ Double Dialogues 18 (2016).
‘Diurnal,’ Double Dialogues 18 (2016).
‘Sleep,’ Double Dialogues 18 (2016).
‘The Interpretation of Dreams,’ Double Dialogues 18 (2016).
'Deja-vu,' Australian Book Review, January-February 2016: 14.
'Knife,' The Best Australian Poems 2015, ed. Geoff Page, Black Inc, Collingwood (VIC), 2015: 32-3.
'Witch,' The Best Australian Poems 2014, ed. Geoff Page, Black Inc, Collingwood (VIC), 2014: 81.
‘Geography lessons’, The turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry, ed. John Kinsella, turnrow Books, Monroe (LA), 2014: 478.
‘Sleep’, The turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry, ed. John Kinsella, turnrow Books, Monroe (LA), 2014: 478-9.
‘Witch’, The turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry, ed. John Kinsella, turnrow Books, Monroe (LA), 2014: 479-80.
‘No man’s land’, The turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry, ed. John Kinsella, turnrow Books, Monroe (LA), 2014: 480.
‘Anaesthetic’, The turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry, ed. John Kinsella, turnrow Books, Monroe (LA), 2014: 481-2.
‘Unborn’, The turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry, ed. John Kinsella, turnrow Books, Monroe (LA), 2014: 482-3.
Missing in action’, Axon: Creative Explorations 4.1 (2014).
‘Mushrooms’, Axon: Creative Explorations 4.1 (2014).
‘Huskies’, Axon: Creative Explorations 4.1 (2014).
‘The Dream’, Land before lines: A photographic portrait series of contemporary Victorian poets, ed. Nicholas Walton-Healey, Hunter, Melbourne, 2014.
‘The Old World’, Hecate 39.1-2 (2013): 92.
‘Chimney’, The Best Australian Poems 2013, ed. Lisa Gorton, Black Inc, Collingwood (VIC), 2013: 25.
‘The Jimi Hendrix Experience’, Mascara 14 (2013).
‘Casino Royale’, Mascara 14 (2013).
‘Epilepsy’, Australian Poetry Journal 3.1 (2013): 58.
‘Inheritance’, Australian Poetry Journal 3.1 (2013): 56-7.
‘Chimney’, Meanjin 72.2 (2013): 57.
‘Winter war’, Overland 209 (2012): 88.
‘Eliza’s shipwreck’, Westerly 57.2 (2012): 120-1.
‘Night feed’, The Best Australian Poems 2012, ed. John Tranter, Black Inc, Collingwood (VIC), 2012: 25.
‘Convicts’, Notes for the Translators: by 142 New Zealand and Australian Poets, ed. Kit Kelen, AMC, Macao, 2012: 394-5.
‘Cesare Lombroso, criminal anthropologist’, Higher Arc 2: 1-3 (2012).
‘The twilight zone’, Cordite 39.0 (2012).
‘Degeneration’, Eureka Street 22.14 (2012).
‘White Australia’, Eureka Street 22.14 (2012).
‘Diurnal’, Eureka Street 22.14 (2012).
‘Night feed’, The Saturday Age, 9 June 2012: 37.
‘The arrivals’, Australian Poetry Journal 2.1 (2012): 57.
‘Loneliness’, Michigan Quarterly Review (USA) LI.3 (2012): 387.
‘Golden Sigi: An advertisement’, ABR 342 (2012): 39.
‘Crime scene investigation’, Griffith Review 35 (2012): 133.
‘Convicts’, Digital Behemoth 2 (2012).
‘Loneliness’, Digital Behemoth 2 (2012).
‘Why nuns are holy’, Digital Behemoth 2 (2012).
‘Electronic music studios’, Fox Chase Review, Winter-Spring 2012.
‘Bestiary’, Southerly 71.3 (2011): 45.
‘Utopia’, Island 127 (2011): 12.
‘The ashes’, The Best Australian Poems 2011, ed. John Tranter, Black Inc, Collingwood, 2011: 165.
‘Beauty’, Mascara Literary Review 10 (2011).
‘Violence’, Mascara Literary Review 10 (2011).
‘Buenos Aires’, Eureka Street 21: 19 (2011).
‘Financial advice’, Eureka Street 21: 19 (2011).
‘War correspondent’, Eureka Street 21: 19 (2011).
‘The mirror’, Eureka Street 21: 19 (2011).
‘Stalin confesses’, Australian Poetry Journal 1.1 (2011): 56-7.
‘The interpretation of dreams’, Australian Poetry Journal 1.1 (2011): 58-59.
‘Hotel room’, Moving Galleries Poetry Exhibition, 2011.
‘Instructions from god’, Verity La, 2011.
‘Unborn’, Thirty Australian Poets, ed. Felicity Plunkett, UQP, St Lucia (QLD), 2011: 244-5.
‘Canasta for lovers’, Thirty Australian Poets, ed. Felicity Plunkett, UQP, St Lucia (QLD), 2011: 241.
‘Anaesthetic’, Thirty Australian Poets, ed. Felicity Plunkett, UQP, St Lucia (QLD), 2011: 242-3.
‘47 degrees’, Thirty Australian Poets, ed. Felicity Plunkett, UQP, St Lucia (QLD), 2011: 246.
‘Tableaux’, Thirty Australian Poets, ed. Felicity Plunkett, UQP, St Lucia (QLD), 2011: 239-240.
‘Sleep’, The Saturday Age, 6 August 2011: 31.
‘47 degrees’, Westerly 56.1 (2011): 218.
‘No man’s land’, The Best Australian Poems 2010, ed. Robert Adamson, Black Inc, Collingwood, 2010: 201.
‘No man’s land’, Australian Book Review 320 (2010): 48.
‘Dogs in space’, Cordite 33.0 (2010).
‘The end of the world’, HEAT 22 (2010): 130-1.
‘Sisu’, Ekleksographia 3 (2010).
‘Tourist’, Ekleksographia 3 (2010).
‘Grim’, Ekleksographia 3 (2010).
‘Electra and Orestes’, Ekleksographia 3 (2010).
‘Why nuns are holy’, Australian Literary Review, 5.1 (2010): 25.
‘Post-partum’, Australian Literary Review, 5.1 (2010): 25.
‘Cusco’, Eureka Street 19.20 (2009).
‘Domestic’, Southerly 69.2 (2009): 107-110.
‘Unborn’, Meanjin 68.3 (2009): 219-220.
‘Nose Bleed’, Motherlode: Australian Women’s Poetry 1986-2008, eds J. Harrison & K Waterhouse, Puncher & Wattman, Glebe (NSW), 2009: 142.
‘Witch’, The Best Australian Poetry 2009, ed. Alan Wearne, UQP, St Lucia (QLD), 2009: 84-5.
‘Anaesthetic’, The Best Australian Poems 2009, ed. Robert Adamson, Black Inc, Melbourne, 2009: 188-9.
‘Anaesthetic’, Island 118 (2009): 103-4.
‘Writer’, Text: The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs 12.2 (2008).
‘Drunk’, The Best Australian Poems 2008, ed. Peter Rose, Black Inc, Melbourne, 2008: 127.
‘Drunk’, The Saturday Age, 12 July 2008: 29.
‘Convicts’, Antipodes 22.1 (2008): 71.
‘Medea’, Australian Literary Review 3.4 (2008): 25.
‘Gothic’, The Saturday Age, 10 May 2008: 29.
‘Reality check’, Meanjin 66.4-67.1 (2008): 292-3.
‘Witch’, Blue Dog 6.12 (2007): 25.
‘Mary Shelley’, Australian Book Review 296 (2007): 19.
‘Franz Kafka’, Westerly 52 (2007): 59-60.
‘Jorge Luis Borges’, Westerly 52 (2007): 58-9.
‘Ghost story’, Hecate 33.1 (2007): 243.
‘Finland: fables’, Saltlick Quarterly 1 (2007).
‘Child of night’, The Saturday Age, 29 September 2007: 29.
‘Alien Signals: Poems after Stanley Kubrick’, The Best Australian Poems 2007, ed. Peter Rose, Black Inc, Melbourne, 2007: 96-7.
‘Tableaux’, In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself, ed. Marlow Peerse Weaver, MW Enterprises, Cary (NC), 2007: 61.
‘Tides’, In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself, ed. Marlow Peerse Weaver, MW Enterprises, Cary (NC), 2007: 254.
‘Seasonal’, Australian Book Review 292 (2007): 36.
‘Claude Monet’, Eureka Street 17.2 (2007).
‘The Barwon River races’, Eureka Street 17.2 (2007).
‘Circus’, Eureka Street 17.2 (2007).
‘Tableaux’, Westerly 51 (2006): 136.
‘Geography lesson’, The Saturday Age, 21 October 2006: 29.
‘Canasta for lovers’, Australian Book Review 285 (2006): 24.
‘Satellites’, Eureka Street 16.12 (2006).
‘Storm’, The Best Australian Poetry 2006, ed. Judith Beveridge, UQP, St Lucia (QLD), 2006: 82-4.
‘Alien Signals: Poems after Stanley Kubrick’, Southerly 66.1 (2006): 45-6.
‘Misogyny’, The Saturday Age, 27 May 2006: 29.
‘Narcissism’, Island 103 (2005): 59-61.
‘Whale Watching’, The Best Australian Poems 2005, ed. Les Murray, Black Inc, Melbourne, 2005: 167-8.
‘Tides’, Agenda (UK) 41.1-2 (2005):133.
‘Peace be with you (and also with you)’, Agenda (UK) 41.1-2 (2005): 134.
‘Whale Watching’, Australian Book Review 272 (2005): 13.
‘Storm’, Australian Book Review 269 (2005): 23.
‘Ekphrasis’, LiNQ 32.1 (2005): 72.
‘Happy New Year Overture’, LiNQ 32.1 (2005): 73.
‘Nose Bleed’, Antipodes (USA) 18.2 (2004): 128.
‘Peace be with you (and also with you)’, Meanjin 63.4 (2004): 226.
‘Minimalism and the abstract’, Australian Book Review 263 (2004): 22.
GRANTS, PRIZES, RESIDENCIES
2022 Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Trigger Warning
2022 Short-listed for the Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal for Trigger Warning
2022 Foundation for Australian Literary Studies ‘Writing at the Reef’ Residency, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, QLD
2021 Residency at Bundanon, NSW
2020 Residency at Arteles Creative Centre, Finland
2019 Awarded Neilma Sidney Travel Fund
2018 Long-listed for University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize
2018 Long-listed for Newcastle Poetry Prize
2018 Short-listed for Red Room Poetry Fellowship
2017 Commission for Bronze Stories: Geelong Unearthed from the City of Greater Geelong
2015 Awarded Australia Council New Work Grant
2015 Short-listed for Melbourne Prize for Literature Best New Writing for The Double
2012 Awarded Australia Council New Work Grant
2010 Winner of inaugural Australian Book Review Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
2010 Short-listed for Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Ghostly Subjects
2005 Short-listed for inaugural Australian Book Review Peter Porter Poetry Prize
1991 Winner of Judah Waten Short Story Competition
PUBLIC ART
Bronze Stories: Geelong Unearthed. Text for bronze plaques in footpaths in Central Geelong and for a Geelong Arts and Culture Trails app, 2019.
‘Guilfoyle’s Volcano’, poem installed at Guilfoyle’s Volcano at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, 2017.
PHOTO-STORIES, PHOTO-POEMS, PHOTO-ESSAYS
‘Magic’, Island Online, 14 March 2024.
SCHOLARSHIP
Books
Catching Butterflies: Bringing Magical Realism to Ground, Peter Lang, Bern, 2007.
The Limits of Life Writing (eds David McCooey & Maria Takolander), Routledge, Oxon, 2018.
Book chapters
'Riddling the Nation: Allegory in Twenty-first Century Australian Fiction by Women’, The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2023, 646-661.
‘Sabotage and repair: Intertextuality in Carrie Tiffany’s Exploded View,’ Reading like an Australian Writer, ed. Belinda Castles, NSW Publishing, Sydney, 2021, 207-218.
‘The Most Beautiful Lies: Magical Realism in Australasia,’ Magical Realism and Literature, eds Christopher Warnes & Kim Sasser, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2020.
‘Magical Realism and Indigenous Survivance in Australia: The Fiction of Alexis Wright,’ The Palgrave Handbook of Magical Realism in the Twenty-First Century, eds Richard Perez & Victoria A. Chevalier, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020: 173-196.
‘Confessional Poetry and the Materialisation of an Autobiographical Self,' The Limits of Life Writing, eds David McCooey & Maria Takolander, Routledge, Oxon, 2018: 371-383.
'The walking wounded', in Amy Witting Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop, Text, Melbourne, 2015: vii-xii.
‘Doubling up: Finding inspiration in life and literature’, Cracking the Spine: Ten Short Australian Stories and How they were Written, Spineless Wonders, Strawberry Hills (NSW), 2014: 40-47.
‘Slow Man overboard: JM Coetzee on Australian hospitality,’ Telling Stories: Australian Life and Literature 1935-2012, eds Paul Genoni & Tanya Dalziell, Monash University Press, Clayton, 2013: 539-545.
‘Monstrous women: Gothic misogyny in Monster House’ Contemporary Children's Literature and Film: Engaging with Theory, eds Clare Bradford & Kerry Mallan, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, 2011: 79-93.
'The sensational imagination: Ian McEwan’s Saturday’ in Literature and Sensation, eds Anthony Uhlmann, Helen Groth, Paul Sheehan & Stephen McLaren, Cambridge Scholars Press, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2009: 50-60.
Refereed journal articles
'The Writer and The Double,’ Westerly, Special Issue no. 11: Doppelgänger, 2022: 9-20.
‘The Uncanny Mask and the Fiction Writer,’ New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (UK), 2020.
‘Magical Realism and the Transcultural Politics of Irony: Alexis Wright’s Plains of Promise,’ JASAL: Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature 3.18 (2019).
‘What Games Writing Teaches us About Creative Writing: A Case Study of The Fulbright Company's Gone Home,' TEXT Special Issue no. 49, 'Writing and Gaming', 2018.
'Confessional Poetry and the Materialisation of an Autobiographical Self,' Life Writing Special Issue, 'The Limits of Life Writing' 14.3 (2017): 371-383.
'Grounding the “Auto-intoxicated" Romantic Poet: A Socio-material Theory of Poetic Praxis,' TEXT Special Issue no. 41, 'Romanticism and Contemporary Writing: Legacies and Resistances', 2017.
‘Shifting the “Vantage Point” to Women: Reconceptualizing Magical Realism and Trauma,’ Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 58.1 (2017): 41-52.
‘Theorizing Trauma and Irony in Magical Realism: Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Alexis Wrights’ The Swan Book’, ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, 47.3 (2016): 95-122.
‘“A dark/Inscrutable workmanship”: Shining a Scientific Light on Poiesis,’ Axon: Creative Explorations C1, 2015.
‘From the “Mad” Poet to the “Embodied’ Poet: Reconceptualising Poetic Creativity Through Cognitive Science Paradigms’, TEXT 19.2 (2015).
'After Romanticism, Psychoanalysis and Postmodernism: New Paradigms for Theorising Creativity', TEXT 18.2 (2014).
'Dissanayke’s “Motherese” and Poetic Praxis: Theorising Emotion and Inarticulacy’, Axon: Creative Explorations 4.1 (2014).
'Magical Realism and Irony's "Edge": Rereading Magical Realism and Kim Scott's Benang,' JASAL: Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature 14.5 (2014).
'Nasdijj's Fake Magical Realist Memoir? Re-envisioning Magical Realism's Relationship with Fakery,' Postcolonial Text 9.3 (2014).
‘Magical Realism and Fakes: After Carpentier’s “Marvelous Real” and Mudrooroo’s “Maban Realism”’, Antipodes (US) 24.2 (2010): 165-171.
‘“Energetic Space”: Literary Experience and Learning,’ College Literature (US) 36.3 (2009): 165-183.
‘Coetzee’s Haunting of Australian Literature,’ JASAL: Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, Special issue: Spectres, screens, shadows, mirrors, 2007: 37-51.
‘Narcissism: Reflections,’ Double Dialogues: in/stead 1 (2006): 1-7.
‘Faking it for Real,’ English Studies in Canada 31.2-3 (2005): 307-325.
‘The Unhallowed Art: Literature and Literary Fakes in Australia’, TEXT 4 (2005): 102-114.
‘“You can’t say no to The Beauty and the Beast”: Shrek and Ideology’, Papers 14.1 (2005): 5-14.
‘Fakes, Literary Identity and Public Culture’, JASAL: Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature 3 (2004): 57-65.
‘Swampland: Signs and Visitations’, Life Writing 1.2 (2004): 177-99.
Published refereed conference papers
'Theft as Creative Methodology: A Case Study of Digital Narratives,' Authorised Theft: Writing, Scholarship, Collaboration, The Refereed Proceedings of the 21st Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs 2016, eds Niloofar Fanaiyan, Rachel Franks & Jessica Seymour.
‘Critique and Creativity: The Nexus Between Literary Studies and Creative Writing’, Strange Bedfellows or Perfect Partners: The Role of Literary Studies in Creative Writing Programs, The Refereed Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs 2010, eds Catherine Cole, Marcelle Freiman & Donna Lee Brien.
AS EDITOR
Cordite 94: EARTH (2020).
& Ross Watkins, Alayna Cole & Rhett Davis (eds), TEXT Special issue, 'Writing and Gaming' 49 (2018).
& David McCooey (eds), Life Writing, Special issue ‘The Limits of Life Writing’ 14.3 (2017).
& Wenche Ommundsen (eds), TEXT, Special issue ‘Australian Literature and Public Culture’ 4 (2005).
BOOK REVIEWS & COMMENTARIES
‘Nova Weetman Love, Death & Other Scenes,’ The Saturday Paper, 20 April 2024.
‘Balsam Karam The Singularity,’ The Saturday Paper, 16 March 2024.
‘Alecia Simmonds Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law,’ The Saturday Paper, 9 December 2023.
‘Suzie Miller Prima Facie,’ The Saturday Paper, 7 October 2023.
‘Nadine J Cohen Everyone and Everything,’ The Saturday Paper, 2 September 2023.
‘Cynthia Dearborn The Year My Family Unravelled,’ The Saturday Paper, 1 July 2023.
‘Isabel Allende The Wind Knows My Name,’ The Saturday Paper, 10 June 2023.
‘Viola Di Grado Blue Hunger,’ The Saturday Paper, 1 April 2023.
‘Thirst for Salt by Madelaine Lucas,’ Australian Book Review, no. 452 (April 2023): 41.
‘Janet Malcolm Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory,’ The Saturday Paper, 11 November 2023.
‘Totality by Anders Villani,’ Australian Book Review, no. 450 (January-February 2023): 39.
‘Philip Salom Sweeney and the Bicycles,’ The Saturday Paper, 12 November 2022.
‘Fiona Kelly McGregor Iris,’ The Saturday Paper, 29 October 2022.
‘Rose Interior by Tracy Ryan,’ Australian Book Review, no. 444 (July 2022): 53-4.
‘Isobel Beech Sunbathing,’ The Saturday Paper, 4 June 2022.
‘Lloyd Jones The Fish,’ The Saturday Paper, 2 April 2022.
‘Ben Walter What Fear Was,’ The Saturday Paper, 12 March 2022.
‘Kate Moore The Woman They Could Not Silence,’ The Saturday Paper, 4 December 2021.
‘Delia Falconer Signs and Wonders,’ The Saturday Paper, 2 October 2021.
‘Sarah Walker The First Time I Thought I Was Dying,’ The Saturday Paper, 21 August 2021.
‘Christine Ball The Chloroformist,’ The Saturday Paper, 14 August 2021.
‘Moved by Words: How Poetry Helps us Express our Feelings,’ The Conversation, 10 June 2021.
‘Irvin D. Yalom & Marilyn Yalom A Matter of Death and Life,’ The Saturday Paper, 5 June 2021.
‘Isabel Allende The Soul of a Woman,’ The Saturday Paper, 20 March 2021.
‘Pam Brown (ed.) Minarets 11,’ The Saturday Paper, 13 February 2021.
‘Philip Salom The Fifth Season,’ The Saturday Paper, 21 November 2020.
‘Kate Mildenhall The Mother Fault,’ The Saturday Paper, 3 October 2020.
‘Ali Smith Summer,’ The Saturday Paper, 29 August 2020.
‘Overland, #238,’ The Saturday Paper, 15 August 2020.
‘Ellen van Neerven Throat,’ The Saturday Paper, 30 May 2020.
‘Fernanda Melchor Hurricane Season,’ The Saturday Paper, 23 May 2020.
‘James Bradley Ghost Species,’ The Saturday Paper, 4 May 2020.
‘Laura Jean McKay The Animals in That Country,’ The Saturday Paper, 4 April 2020.
‘Earth: Editorial,’ Cordite Poetry Review, 1 February 2020.
‘Best Books of 2019,’ The Saturday Paper, 21 December 2019.
‘Emma Larking (ed.) We Refugees’, The Saturday Paper, 30 November 2019.
‘Carmel Bird Field of Poppies’, The Saturday Paper, 15 November 2019.
‘Charlotte Wood The Weekend’, The Saturday Paper, 5 October 2019.
‘Claire G Coleman The Old Lie’, The Saturday Paper, 14 September 2019.
‘Habiburahman First, They Erased Our Name’, The Saturday Paper, 31 August 2019.
‘Elizabeth Bryer From Here On, Monsters’, The Saturday Paper, 20 July 2019.
‘Tara June Winch The Yield’, The Saturday Paper, 6 July 2019.
‘Kathryn Hind Hitch’, The Saturday Paper, 29 June 2019.
‘Sarah Hopkins The Subjects’, The Saturday Paper, 8 June 2019.
‘Mariana Dimopulos Imminence’, The Saturday Paper, 30 March 2019.
‘Mark Brandi The Rip’, The Saturday Paper, 16 March 2019.
‘Jennifer Maiden brookings: the noun’, The Saturday Paper, 23 February 2019.
‘Lee Kofman Imperfect’, The Saturday Paper, 16 February 2019.
‘Gerald Murnane Green Shadows and Other Poems’, The Saturday Paper, 9 February 2019.
'"The Task of Writing a Poem is One of Coming to Some Understanding": Maria Takolander Reflects on New Shoots,' Red Room Poetry, 16 August 2017.
‘Un manifiesto de la poesía por la paz’ (translated by Jorge Salavert), Festival Internacional de la Poesía de Medellín, 2017.
‘Review Short: Simon Armitage’s New Cemetery & Philip Gross’s Time in the Dingle,’ Cordite 2016.
'Explainer: Magical Realism,' The Conversation, 3 December 2015.
‘Review Short: Judith Beveridge’s Hook and Eye,’ Cordite, 16 June 2015.
‘Vision and Revision’ (Review of Euripides Iphigenia among the Taurians), Australian Book Review 371 (2015): 56.
'Making a Mark', Australian Book Review 364 (2014): 66.
'Selected Shorts', Australian Book Review 364 (2014): 50.
‘Words Like Padlocks’, Readings monthly, September 2013: 9.
‘Better Homes and Gardens, and the Role of Impropriety,' Southerly, 8 May 2013.
'666: The Mark of a Writer,' Southerly, 15 May 2013.
'The Problem of Privacy', Southerly, 27 May 2013.
'On Not Being Born to Write', Southerly, 2 June 2013.
‘Escape Artist’ (Review of Bronwyn Lea’s The Deep North), Cordite, 20 December 2013.
‘Cauldron of Blood’ (Review of John Kinsella’s Tide), Australian Book Review 357 (2013): 11 & 13.
‘Review Short: Tracy Ryan’s Unearthed’, Cordite 42 (29 July 2013).
‘Audible Dance’ (Review of John Leonard (ed) Young Poets: An Australian Anthology), Australian Book Review 340 (2012): 53.
‘Hope in Flight’ (Review of Robyn Rowland Seasons of Doubt and Burning: New and Selected), Australian Book Review 328 (2011): 57.
‘Brigid Rooney Literary Activists’, JASAL 9 (2009).
‘Journals in Brief’ (Review of Blue Dog, Meanjin & Heat), Australian Book Review 306 (2008): 52.
‘The Importance of Elsewhere’ (Review of John Mateer Elsewhere), Australian Book Review 302 (2008): 58.
‘Generation of ‘08’ (Review of Elizabeth Campbell Letters to the Tremulous Hand & L.K. Holt Man Wolf Man), Australian Book Review 301 (2008): 60.
‘Embracing Complexity’ (Review of Antipodes & Australian Literary Studies), Australian Book Review 291 (2007): 51-2.
‘The Artlessness of Fiction’ (Review of Belinda Burns The Dark Part of Me & Will Elliott The Pilo Family Circus), Australian Book Review 288 (2007): 33-4.
‘Best Books for 2006’, Australian Book Review 279 (2006): 11.
‘God’s Gift’ (Review of Westerly & Australian Literary Studies), Australian Book Review 279 (2006): 47-48.
‘Corpseworld’ (Review of A.L. McCann’s Subtopia), Australian Book Review 277 (2005): 33.
‘Who Jests at Scars?’ (Review of Joel Deane's Another & Merle Thornton's After Moonlight), Australian Book Review 269 (2005): 40-41.
‘The Dogs of Literature’ (Review of Heat, Island, Overland & Winter Conversations), Australian Book Review 265 (2004): 58-59.
MEDIA
Print interviews
Bieske, Sarah, ‘Moved by Words’, GT Magazine (Geelong Advertiser), 5 March 2022: 10-11.
Steger, Jason, ‘A Memoir of Abuse and Racism Wins Australia’s Richest Writing Prize,’ The Age, 3 February 2022.
Guest, Charlotte, ‘Five Questions with Maria Takolander,’ The Book Bird, 30 July 2021.
Partanen, Sandra, ‘From Cold, Post-war Finland to Sunny Australia: Maria Takolander Talks Writing Habits, Obsessions and the Land of her Roots,’ In the Bookstore, 8 October 2018.
Vassiliadis, Betty, ‘The Magic of Realism: Associate Professor Maria Takolander,’ dKin: Deakin Alumni Magazine 6 (2018): 48-53.
Yeoman, Will, ‘Short Stories Have Their Moment in the Sun,’ The West Australian, 16 October 2018.
Reich, Hannah, ‘Writing Tips from Four Aussie Writers and a New York Veteran,’ ABC News, 1 May 2018.
Baulch, Judy, 'Stars and Sacred Trees,' Invenio 1 September 2017.
Francis, Hannah, 'Poetry Springs up in the Gardens this September,' The Age, 24 August 2017.
Reid, Georgina, 'New Shoots: Plants, Poetry and Place,' The Planthunter 46, 16 August 2017.
McDonald, Lauren, 'Poet Comes Full Circle,' Invenio, 18 May 2017.
Varatharajan, Prithvi, 'Prithvi Varatharajan interviews Maria Takolander', Cordite, 1 February 2015.
Hamer, Michelle, ‘Double take’, The Weekly Review, 12-18 December 2013: 23.
Sodor, Risto, ‘Maria Takolander—australiansuomalainen kirjailija’ (interview), Suomi newspaper, 19 September 2013, p. 1 & 8.
Williams, Daniel, ‘7 questions with award-winning writer and poet Maria Takolander,’ Writing Bar, Australian Writers’ Centre, 2 September 2013.
Clarke, Blanche, ‘Teen years provide double the inspiration’, Daily Telegraph, 26 August 2013: 30.
Hadfield, Warwick, ‘It’s a dream come true’, Geelong Advertiser: Friday 23 August, 24.
Crompton, Helen, ‘A stoic outsider’s eye on the world’, The West Australian, 20 August 2013: 7.
Clarke, Blanche, ‘Double take on life’, Herald Sun, Weekend, 17 August 2013: 26.
McLean, Julie, ‘Interview with Maria Takolander’, Julie Maclean Burlesque, July 2013.
Ford, Adam, ‘Interview with Maria Takolander’, Going Down Swinging blog, May 2013.
Middleton, Kate, ‘Interview with Maria Takolander,’ Sydney City Poet blog, 2012.
Heyward, Will, ‘Interview with Maria Takolander,’ Verity La, 2011.
Kenins, Ian, ‘Imagining the future’, The Geelong Times, 21 July 2010.
Radio interviews
Evans, Kate & Cassic McCullagh, ‘An International Bestseller from India and Controversial Autofiction from Norway’, The Bookshelf, ABC Radio National, 10 March 2023.
Parsons, Jacinta, ‘Interview about Trigger Warning,’ ABC Radio Melbourne Afternoons, 25 August 2021.
Atkinson Quinton, Beth ‘Interview about Trigger Warning,’ The Glasshouse, Triple R, 28 July 2021.
Hales, Heather ‘Interview about Trigger Warning,’ ABC Radio Western Queensland Weekend Breakfast, 24 July 2021.
Evans, Kate & Cassie McCullagh, ‘Laura Lindstedt Oneiron,’ The Bookshelf, ABC Radio National, 27 April 2018.
Kanowski, Sarah, ‘Latin American Book Club: Men of Maize by Miguel Angel Asturias,’ Books and Arts, ABC Radio National, 24 November 2017.
L'Estrange, Sarah, 'New Shoots Poetry Project, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria,' ABC Radio National, Books and Arts, 10 November 2017.
Varatharajan, Prithvi 'Maria Takolander', ABC Radio National, Earshot, 6 May 2015.
McCarthy, Elizabeth & Louise Irving, 'Interview about The End of the World', Multi-storied, 3RRR, 23 April 2014.
Brown, Rhiannon, 'Maria Takolander's debut short story collection The Double', ABC Radio National, Books and Arts Daily, 6 November 2013.
Kirkham, Sky, ‘Maria Takolander interview’, The Book Club, 4zzz, 18 October 2013.
Ryan, Bernard, ‘Interview re. The Double', Pulse FM, 27 August 2013.
Sometimes, Alicia, ‘Interview re. The Double', Aural Text, Triple R, 21 August 2013.
O’Donnell, Vincent, ‘Interview re. The Double', Arts Alive, 2RRR, 21 August 2013.
Ross, Dina, ‘Interview re. The Double', Pageturners Episode 7, 3MBS, 9 August 2013.
Sometimes, Alicia, ‘Interview re. Ghostly Subjects', Aural Text, 3RRR, 2009.
TV/Visual Media interviews
‘Poets Corner with Maria Takolander’, video recording of interview with David Ades, West Words (Sydney), 24 May 2022.
Griffin, James, ‘Singing the mysteries’, ABC TV, 2005.
‘What’s on in Geelong’, Channel 31, 2005.