Published Work
The Other Side. Issue 84 Kaleidoscope: Exploring the Experience of Disability through Literature and the Fine Arts. Akron, Ohio USA (Forthcoming January 2022)
Written from the perspective of my lived experience as a patient and survivor of a major hemorrhagic stroke. Utilises original narrative forms to give voice to the personal, unspoken aspects of this life-changing event.
Pain 21. 2020. Under consideration.
Explores my lived experience with debilitating, chronic pain.
Pink Life. Scars: An Anthology of Microlit. Atherton. C. (ed.) Spineless Wonders. 2020.
Narrated by my first transplanted kidney at the time of my second kidney transplant. Hard copy publication.
Letter to My Body. Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities. Chicago, Illinois USA 2018.
Personal narrative explores the duality in my lifelong relationship with my body.
Yoga After Stroke. Australian Yoga Life, Issue 57 SEP - NOV 2017. Australian Yoga Life (AYL).
Article documents my return to yoga following stroke. Full-colour print magazine available Australia-wide through newsagents (newsstands).
His Long Slender Fingers. Imprint. The University of Sydney Student Anthology 2015. Sydney University Press. 2016.
A short narrative about my late father. Hard copy publication.
Focusing and Writing About Doing the Dance. The FOLIO (Volume 21, Number 1, 2008) TRIBUTE ISSUE. The International Focusing Institute INC [US].
Explores the use of a bodily sense, known as the felt sense, when writing about personal dance experience and other creative endeavours. Based on my research while writing my thesis, the article brings together both anecdotal material from my experience as a dancer, and academic theory/scholarly sources on the subject.
Rope-soul. Candle in the Dark (ed.) Libby Turnock. Kangaroo Valley, New South Wales. Shoalhaven Group of Amnesty International 1997 .
A fictionalised account of my paternal grandfather’s life in an internment camp following World War II in the former Yugoslavia. Incorporates authentic details from his life passed down through my family’s oral history. Rope-soul inspired an unpublished feature-length screenplay I wrote several years ago, by the same name.
Work-in-Progress
Barbie World.
A 3-part piece written in third person, stream of consciousness mode. Follows my “good girl, quiet girl, brave girl” journey from childhood, when I was first diagnosed with chronic kidney failure, through to adulthood. The piece reflects my lived experience in tandem with my Barbie, a gift I received in hospital for my 8th birthday.