Fragments from a Paper Witch

Currently living in Melbourne Marion May Campbell grew up in Sydney and Perth. Her novels Lines of Flight (1985), Not Being Miriam (1988), Prowler (1999) and Shadow Thief (2006) have been shortlisted for major Austalian awards and twice for the Canada-Australia Literary Award. Not Being Miriam won the 1989 Western Australian Literary Week Award for Fiction. Two works for the theatre, Dr Memory in the Dream Home (1990) and Ariadne's Understudies (1992) were performed at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. She has taught Creative Writing at Murdoch University and the University of Melbourne. Gail Jones was born in 1955 in Harvey, Australia. She was educated at the University of Western Australia. She is Professor of Writing in the Writing and Society Research School at the University of Western Australia. She is the author of two short-story collections, and a critical monograph. Her novels include Black Mirror, Sixty Lights, Dreams of Speaking, Sorry, and A Guide to Berlin, which won the 2016 Colin Roderick Award and the HT Priestley Medal.