Book reviews and opinion, The Conversation (AU) ongoing
‘H20: Rain, Ocean, Tears, Ice.‘ Flash Prose. Meniscus, Vol 12, Issue 2, 2024.
With Michelle Hamadache. Essay. ‘Writing on Ice: An ecofeminist conversation on Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘Sur’ and the fate of Antarctica’, Translate|Transform|Transdiscipline: collaborative practice across divides, AXON Journal, No 1, 2024.
‘Some Woman Doing Crazy Dancing’ Short Story. The London Magazine. 25 Mar 2024.
Suicide in Nazi Germany: transformative family history. 2023, Memoir. Life Writing. 20, 1, p. 79-106 28 p. CONTACT me directly for a PDF of this essay, if you don’t have university library access.
‘We Were Already Deep in the Song’. Short story. The Bangalore Review, May 2022.
Friday essay: Morning Thalassa – the calm, salt therapy of Sydney’s women’s pool. Memoir. The Conversation, 17 Dec 2021.
‘Morning Thalassa’. 2021, in The Women’s Pool. Spender, L. (ed.). North Geelong, Victoria: Spinifex Press, p. 11-16 6 p.
‘Even Womb Surrogates Think: rethinking labour and maternal work’. Paper. Studies in the Maternal. Vol 11, 1, p. 1-23, 2019.
‘Reconciliation Dialogues: Kathleen Mary Fallon’s Paydirt, and Narratives of Mothering.’ Paper. JMesser and V. Brookman. 2018. Australian Humanities Review November 2018, 63. 21 p.
‘Reconceptualising Maternal Work: Dejours, Ruddick and Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk about Kevin.’ Paper. Women’s Studies International Forum, Issue 38, pp. 11-20, 2013.
‘Practicing Interdisciplinarity’. Paper. TEXT 16, Special Issue 14, Beyond practice-led research, edited by Scott Brook and Paul Magee: 1-11, 2012.
‘Churned and Spurned in the Flexible World of Work’. Paper. Cultural Studies Review, , UTS Press, Vol 16 (2), 2010. pp. 75-101
‘Up the Highway to Campus Optus.’ Paper. TEXT Special Issue: The Art of the Real. Issue 13 (1). (16 pp) Australasian Association of Writing Programs. April 2009.
‘In My Bed, after Tracey Emin’. Poem. Of Mothers and Death: from Procreation to Creation, Eds. E. Lamothe, P. Sardin, J. Sauvage. Pessac: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux. 2008.
‘Mermaid of Cockatoo’. Short story. Ed. Michael Wilding and David Myers Traveller’s Tales: Best Stories Under the Sun 2, Rockhampton: Outback Books. 2005.
‘The Maternal Heroine’. Paper. Cultural Studies Review, Vol 11 (1) pp. 129-141, UTS Press. 2005.
‘These Withered Hands Doth Us Part’. Memoir, in Certifiable Truths – Stories of Love and Madness, Sydney: Allen & Unwin. 1996.
‘Plump Girls Pinched with Butter’. Short Story. Ed. Susan Johnson, Women Love Sex, Sydney: Vintage. 1996.
‘Public Property’. Memoir. Weddings and Wives, Ed Dale Spender, Ringwood VIC: Penguin Australia, 1994.
‘Famous Eyes, Toes, Etc.’ Short Story. Going Down Swinging, Issue 10/11, 1990.
‘Portrait of Laura’ & ‘Blood Diorama.’ Poems. Up From Below – Poems of the 1980s, Ed. B Petrie, Women’s Redress Press, 1987
‘A Bit of A Jew.’ Prose Poem. Westerly, Vol. 29, No. 4, 1984.