Francesca Rendle-Short

Francesca Rendle-Short is an award-winning novelist, memoirist and essayist. She is a writer and researcher interested in experimental thinking, ethical enquiry, the value of collaboration and community building, and trans-national literatures and literary practices. Her creative and scholarly writing is idiosyncratic and playful in nature, attentive to whimsy and transgression. Her five books include two anthologies of Asia-Pacific and Australian writing The Near and the Far (Vol I and II; Scribe Publications) and the acclaimed novel-cum-memoir Bite Your Tongue (Spinifex Press). She is co-editor of A-Z of Creative Writing Methods (Bloomsbury) and is Professor of Creative Writing in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, co-founder of the non/fictionLab research group and WrICE (Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange).