Cirrus@Austlit

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Show notes

• As a child, Nikki read and was influenced by The Silver Brumby Series by Elyne Mitchell, Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott and Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren.
• As an adult, Nikki admires the distinctive voices of Anne Carson, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morison, Michael Ondaatje(especially Coming Through Slaughter) and Salman Rushdie.
• David Godwin has been Nikki’s agent since her second novel was published. David was originally in an editor, and is still one of the first readers of Nikki’s work.
• Nikki’s first short story was published in Quadrant by Les Murray. Nikki quotes what Les told her on the back of her first novel, Shiver.
• Nikki’s second novel, Cleave, was written as a part of her Masters at UTS. Her thesis was supervised by Glenda Adams and commented on by Amanda Lohrey.
• Nikki credits Virginia Woolf’s discussion of anonymity as a refuge for women writers in A Room of One’s Own as the inspiration behind publishing The Bride Stripped Bare anonymously.
• Nikki has written several lengthy works in the second person, and cites Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights Big City as an influence.