Dr Roanna Gonsalves, Editor

Roanna Gonsalves is an award-winning writer and educator with an interdisciplinary practice. Roanna is a recipient of a NSW Premier’s Literary Award for her collection of short fiction The Permanent Resident (UWAP, 2016) as well as of the UNSW Vice Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence, and the Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Endeavour Award. She has been an invited Keynote Speaker, Chair and panellist at literary events across Australia and internationally. She has been teaching, supervising and mentoring emerging prose writers and screenwriters within communities, schools, literary organizations and institutions for many years. She is a recipient of grants from Creative Australia, is a recipient of fellowships and residencies at Varuna and Bundanon, was the UNSW – Copyright Agency Writer-in-Residence 2018 and received The Bridge Awards’ inaugural Varuna – Cove Park Writing Residency 2019 (Scotland). She served on the Board of Writing NSW (2018-2023) and on the International Project Reference Group for the ARC-funded project ‘Connecting Asia Pacific Literary Cultures. She is the co-convenor of the Literary Provocations Hub in the School of the Arts & Media, Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture at UNSW where she works as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at UNSW.