S03 – Episode 014: Swing dancer, Poet & Academic - Tessa Lunney - Author April in Paris 1921

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Tessa Lunney is a novelist, poet, and occasional academic. Her debut novel April in Paris, 1921 is published by Harper Collins Australia and Pegasus Books USA. In 2016 she won the prestigious Griffith University Josephine Ulrick Prize for Literature for her story Chess and Dragonflies and the A Room Of Her Own Foundation Orlando Prize for Fiction for Those Ebola Burners Them. She was also the recipient of a Varuna Fellowship. In 2013, she graduated from Western Sydney University with a Doctorate of Creative Arts that explored silence in Australian war fiction. In 2014 she was awarded an Australia Council ArtStart grant for literature. Her poetry, short fiction, and reviews have been published in Best Australian Poems 2014, Southerly, Cordite,Griffith Review, and the Australian Book Review, among others. She loves swing and rockabilly dancing, vintage style and lives in Sydney.