Born: Established: 1977 ;
Gender:
Female
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BiographyHistory
Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2025 recipient Varuna Fellowships — Varuna Residential Fellowships for her literary fiction work ‘BEAR’.
- 2023 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships — Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups
Awards for Works
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Staying : A Memoir
Melbourne
:
Text Publishing
,
2018
13520566
2018
single work
autobiography
'As children, Jessie Cole and her brother Jake ran wild, free to roam their rainforest home as they pleased. They had each other, parents who adored them, and two mysterious, beautiful, clever half-sisters, Billie and Zoe, who came to visit every holidays. But when Jessie was on the cusp of adolescence, tragedy struck, and her happy, loving family fell apart.
'This heartbreaking memoir asks what happens to those who are left behind when someone takes their own life. It’s about the importance of home, family and forgiveness—and finding peace in a place of pain.
'By the critically acclaimed author of Darkness on the Edge of Town and Deeper Water.' (Publication summary)
- 2019 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Award for Non-Fiction
- 2019 longlisted Colin Roderick Award
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Darkness on the Edge of Town
Sydney
:
Fourth Estate
,
2012
Z1873808
2012
single work
novel
mystery
'My dad, he collects broken things ... Where other people see junk he sees potential ... My dad collects broken people too ...
Vincent is nearly forty years old, with little to show for his life except his precious sixteen-year-old daughter, Gemma: sensitive, insightful and wise beyond her years.
When a stranger crashes her car outside Vincent and Gemma′s bush home, their lives take a dramatic turn. In an effort to help the stranded woman, father and daughter are drawn into a world of unexpected and life-changing consequences.
Darkness on the Edge of Town is a haunting tale that beguiles the reader with its deceptively simple prose, its gripping and unrelenting tensions, and its disturbing yet tender observations.' (Publisher's blurb)
- 2013 longlisted Kibble Literary Awards — Nita May Dobbie Award
- 2013 shortlisted ASAL Awards — ALS Gold Medal
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