About
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I am a Western Australian writer of Greek heritage. My father's family was from the island of Evia. My mother's family was from Kastellorizo and Rhodes.
I live in Perth/Boorloo, in Western Australia on the lands of the Whadjuk Nyoongar people. I have also lived in Shrewsbury, London, Vancouver, Paris and New York. I studied at the University of Western Australia and the University of British Columbia, Canada and worked as a lawyer in Perth and Paris.
My creative non-fiction, memoir, fiction and poetry has been awarded and published in anthologies and journals in Australia and the United States. I've had short fiction published in Westerly, Griffith Review and Science Write Now. I am a 2024 winner of the Griffith Review Emerging Voices Competition for my essay, Know Thyself, which will be published in 2025.
I was recently part of the Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival 2024, where I presented a workshop on Writing Across Time in the New Narratives Program.
My debut novel, Matia, has been acquired by UWA Publishing and will be released in October 2024.
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