Selected writings
Photo by Lilly Down
Fiction + sundry
'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
Aesop: the book (co-authored with Dennis Paphitis)
published by Rizzoli New York, 2019
Essays + criticism
'What I'm Reading' | Meanjin, 1 February 2021
'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
Portraits: The Saturday Paper (2015–18)
Sam Muhirwa and Epiphanie Mukashyaka | 5 May 2018
Dream Catching: florist and grandmother Lorna | 17 March 2018
Play and Pedagogy: 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: filmmaker Hollie Fifer | 30 May 2017
Healing Wounds: artist Rushdi Anwar | 16 May 2015
Literary Vision: Tony Birch | 4 April 2015
The Carlton Few: Jane Clifton | 7 February 2015