“I spoke for my brother when he was too afraid to answer — now, he speaks in melodies, and I have learned to listen.” The Guardian, July 2025
“In my family, introvert-extrovert pairings are common. But I had to get to 36 to learn which one applied to me.” The Guardian, March 2025
‘I live in a forest my parents planted when I was a child. It’s not too late for you to grow one too.’ The Guardian, February 2025
‘I didn’t know Sara and Lily, but I followed their story from afar.’ The SMH/The Age, February 2025
‘My neurotic dog Tully doesn’t like change. So imagine my astonishment when he lets me start brushing him.‘ The Guardian, June 2024
‘I love you,” I whisper to the waterhole. When I wake up tomorrow, will it be gone?’ The Guardian, February 2024
‘Vale Varda, the gentle, unflinching therapist who with three words unlocked my life.’ The Guardian, January 2024
‘I compete for my granddaughter’s attention with my mother. But the trick, it seems, is to stand back.’ The Guardian, January 2024
‘The Woodsplitter.’ The Monthly, Sept 2023
‘Swimming without breath.’ The Saturday Paper, April, 2023
‘I tried cold-water immersion – and was vigorously courted by a catfish.’ The Guardian, April, 2023
‘On Art as Love (and everything in between).’ Sydney Review of Books, February, 2023
‘My granddaughter’s birth was so beautiful I wept, reminded of how sweet life can be.’ The Guardian, February, 2023
‘Creaking Hallways.’ The Saturday Paper, November, 2022
‘Broken Glass.’ Open Book Magazine, August 2022
‘Their Byron Baes is very different to my Byron Bay,’ SMH/The Age, March, 2022.
‘On home.’ House & Garden, July 2017
‘The Asian Invasion: Multiculturalism in hippie heartland,’ The Griffith Review. Issue #49, 2015, and in the Asia Literary Review, Issue #28
‘Inner Sanctum/Home Body.’ Good Weekend/The Age, April, 2015.
‘The Tasmanian Boy.’ Kill Your Darlings, Issue #22, 2015
‘The Hook.’ Kill Your Darlings, Issue #20, January, 2015.
‘Sexual Misadventures.’ Meanjin, Issue #74, 2015.
‘The Nest.’ The Lifted Brow, Issue #25, 2015.
‘An Unsurveyed Land.’ CHART Collective, December, 2014.
‘Suiting Himself.’ The Saturday Paper, September, 2014
‘How do tell someone about surviving not one, but two tragedies?’ The Guardian, October, 2014
‘Unwitting Selfies: Fiction and Self Exposure.’ Wheeler Centre Dailies, October, 2014.
‘Words & Music.’ Northerly, July-August, 2013
‘It’s hard to raise a teenage boy—and even harder to be one.’ The Guardian, July 2013
‘Botox silences women’s faces—and freezes out empathy in body language.’ The Guardian, May 2013
‘The Breaking Point.’ Meanjin, Issue #72, 2013
‘On The God of Small Things.’ Newswrite, #208, April-May 2013
‘Do we teach prejudice?’ Daily Life, January 2013
‘How much is a mother worth?’ Daily Life, January 2013
‘Why Is It (Still) the Mother’s Fault?’ Wheeler Centre News, December 2012
‘The Knoll.’ Meanjin, #71, 2012
‘The Letter.’ Island, #129, 2012
‘Man of Constant Solace.’ Big Issue, #402, 2012
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