selected writings

​essays and criticism

'When Writing is Your Job, Researching Trauma Can Be a Workplace Hazard' | Lit Hub, 2 August 2018
 

'Letters Collapse: A review of Jesse Ball's Census' | The Lifted Brow Review of Books, 18 May 2018
 

'Unsentimental Journey: Revisiting Thea Astley's Reaching Tin River' | Kill Your Darlings, 2 May 2018
 

'A Rock the Size of My Fist' | The Lifted Brow Online, 11 September 2017
 

'No Small World: a review of Tara June Winch's After the Carnage' | The Lifted Brow Review of Books, 21 September 2016
 

'The Great Illusion: a review of Helen Garner's Everywhere I Look' | The Lifted Brow Review of Books, 14 April 2016

fiction and sundry

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'Fossils Fuels' |The Griffith Review no. 56, May 2017
 

Portrait of Leisl Smith for The Unmissables, a project in conjunction with Missing Persons Advocacy Network

​monograph​

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Aesop: the book (co-authored with Dennis Paphitis)
published by Rizzoli New York, 2019 

portraits: the saturday paper

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Sam Muhirwa and Epiphanie Mukashyaka | 5 May 2018
 

Dream Catching | 17 March 2018
 

Play and Pedagogy with Designer Mary Featherston | 23 December 2017
 

Musician Ron S Peno  | 11 November 2017
 

Composer Him Sophy | 30 September 2017
 

Actor Steve Coogan | 29 July 2017
 

Opposition Leader | 30 May 2017
 

Healing Wounds | 16 May 2015
 

The Literary Vision of Stella Prize Judge Tony Birch | 4 April 2015
 

The Carlton Few | 7 February 2015