Tracy Sorensen Tracy Sorensen i(A85700 works by)
Born: Established: Brisbane, Queensland, ;
Gender: Female
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1 4 y separately published work icon The Vitals Tracy Sorensen , Sydney : Picador , 2023 26365452 2023 single work prose

'Deep inside Tracy's body live the organs of the peritoneal cavity.

'Ute, a wandering womb.
Rage, an existential spleen.
Gaster, a gleeful gorger.
Liv, a workaholic liver.

'But there is also Baby, an ever-growing tumour, and Baby's child Bunny, whose cells are multiplying alarmingly.

'Together, the organs must fight for homeostasis ... and Tracy's survival.

'The Vitals is Tracy Sorensen's cancer memoir transformed by imagination into something far richer and stranger. Narrated by her internal organs, it will make you infinitely more aware of the peculiar world inside your body, and illuminate all the hidden parts that make you human.' (Publication summary)

1 Claire Dunn : Rewilding the Urban Soul Tracy Sorensen , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , August 2021;

— Review of Rewilding the Urban Soul Claire Dunn , 2021 single work autobiography

'Part memoir, part urgent appeal, Claire Dunn’s new book explores how our urban lives can become more intimate with nature.' 

1 Helioseismology Tracy Sorensen , 2019 single work prose
— Appears in: Dark Sky Dreamings : An Inland Skywriters Anthology 2019; (p. 221-224)
1 Dr Douglas and the Baby Rabbits Tracy Sorensen , 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: The Sky Falls Down : An Anthology of Loss 2019; (p. 172-176)
1 Leah Kaminsky : The Hollow Bones Tracy Sorensen , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , June 2019;

— Review of The Hollow Bones Leah Kaminsky , 2019 single work novel
1 Fifty Years of Innocent Happiness Tracy Sorensen , 2018 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 77 no. 4 2018; (p. 178-182)

'Have we done with the man in the open-necked shirt solemnly enjoying his ice cream? It would appear not. For a long time he was there in the flesh, as real as you or me. You could, if you wanted to, examine the hairs on his shins or press your hand to the pocket containing a biro and a small packet of Benson and Hedges. You could breathe in the cigarette and beer smell of him. But then he began to melt along with his ice cream in the sun. The sweetness melts and mingles with skin. You look again and he has become digital, a low-resolution copy of a copy, a little jagged around the edges. He is perhaps blending with parts of the caravan park in the background. Still, we have not done with him. We wait for him to lick again. To catch one more glimpse of that living tongue.'  (Introduction)

1 Catherine McKinnon : Storyland Tracy Sorensen , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , June 2018;

'Storyland carries us into new imaginative places – past, present and future.'

1 Inga Simpson : Understory : A Life with Trees Tracy Sorensen , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , February 2018;

'In Understory Inga Simpson invites us to be more truly here than we were before.'

1 3 y separately published work icon The Lucky Galah Tracy Sorensen , Sydney : Picador , 2018 12178178 2018 single work novel

'It’s 1969 and a remote Australian coastal town is poised to play its part in the Moon Landing. An influx of expat NASA employees working at the tracking station on the sand dune just out of town shakes things up. A pink and grey galah cockatoo emerges from a cage at the back door of the Kelly household and uncovers some tightly-held secrets. She threads these playfully through the story of her own rising and falling fortunes in what we call the lucky country.' (Publications summary)

1 Melissa Ashley : The Birdman’s Wife Tracy Sorensen , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , November 2016;

— Review of The Birdman's Wife Melissa Ashley , 2016 single work novel
1 Tegan Bennett Daylight : Six Bedrooms Tracy Sorensen , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , November 2015;

— Review of Six Bedrooms Tegan Bennett Daylight , 2015 selected work short story
1 Leah Kaminsky : The Waiting Room Tracy Sorensen , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , September 2015;

— Review of The Waiting Room Leah Kaminsky , 2015 single work novel
1 Germaine Greer : White Beech Tracy Sorensen , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , November 2013;
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