July monthly blogger – Gretchen Shirm!

A huge thanks to Claire Scobie for her excellent posts on the process of The Pagoda Tree.

This month, our blogger is Gretchen Shirm. Her bio is below.

G2Gretchen Shirm’s collection of interwoven short stories Having Cried Wolf was published in September 2010 and was shortlisted for the UTS/Glenda Adams Award for New Writing. In 2011, she was named as a Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Novelist. Her writing has been published in Best Australian Stories 2011, Review of Australian Fiction, Southerly, Sydney Review of Books and The Saturday Paper. She is a candidate for her Doctor of Creative Arts at the Writing & Society Research Centre, University of Western Sydney.