Born: Established: 1977 ;
Gender:
Female
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BiographyHistory
Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2022 recipient Varuna Fellowships — Writer’s Space Fellowship — Online Fellowship for Breath
- 2022 recipient UQP Writing Mentorship for her memoir 'Breath'.
Awards for Works
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Breath : A Triumphant Story of Hope and Survival
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
2024
27137025
2024
single work
autobiography
'A triumphant story of hope and survival
'I am dying. I know that I'm dying, despite not having been told by my doctors that I am dying. I know I am dying because I'm in the dying room.
'Carly-Jay Metcalfe was born with cystic fibrosis, survived a double-lung transplant at the age of twenty-one and faced a rare cancer at the age of thirty. What she has endured should have killed her, but her humour, courage and optimism became her best survival skills.
'From her hospitalised childhood to her many friendships, loves and losses, Carly-Jay shares the fickle nature of life with candour and warmth. She writes with compelling insight about organ donation, opioid addiction and survivor's guilt, while still managing to find joy amongst the wreckage.
'Breath is a stunningly frank and darkly funny memoir about living, dying and trying to breathe.' (Publication summary)
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