About Me
 | Sue Bond The Gap, Brisbane Member since: May, 2008 Last login: 08/20/2008 Last update : 07/03/2008 Contact Me |
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| Birthday | 04/23/1965 |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
About Me
I have had short stories published in a number of little magazines, in print and online (Mangrove, Hecate, SmokeLong Quarterly, Journal of Australian Studies, Imago), and review for the Courier Mail, Metapsychology Online Reviews, The Compulsive Reader, and other print and online journals.
I completed a Master of Arts in Creative Writing at the University of Queensland, and have degrees in medicine and literature.
In 1999 I received a grant from Arts Queensland to begin a writing project centred on my experience as an adoptee.This is an ongoing work.
Marriage
- I am in a long-term relationship.
Relationships
Adoptive and birth families all originally from the UK.
Interests & Hobbies
- reading, writing, walking, nature, art, film, wine & food!
Favorite Books
- The Wild Palms, Owls Do Cry, A Good Man is Hard to Find, The Sheltering Sky, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Sound and the Fury, Faces in the Water, An Angel at my Table, Birds in America, The Bone People, Don Quixote, The Wild Places, The Liars' Club, Wings of the Kite Hawk
Favorite Authors
- William Faulkner, Janet Frame, Doris Lessing, Michael Ondaatje, Lorrie Moore, Jane Austen, the Brontes, Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Marilynne Robinson, Shakespeare, John Updike, Philip Roth, Patrick White, Drusilla Modjeska, David Marr, Ffion Murphy, Anne-Maree Rolley, Lesley Synge, Liz Hall-Downs, Craig Munro, Isabel d'Avila Winter
What I'm Reading
- Hold Everything Dear by John Berger, The After Life by Kathleen Stewart, Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich, latest edition of: Heat, The Monthly, Quarterly Essay, VQR, Brick
WORK
- writer and reviewer
UPCOMING WORK
- Learning to swim by drowning is a memoir of sorts currently in progress.
CAUSES I SUPPORT
- The Wilderness Society (http://www.wilderness.org.au/), Amnesty International (http://www.amnesty.org/), Choose Cruelty Free (http://www.choosecrueltyfree.org.au/), Medicins Sans Frontieres (http://www.msf.org/), Oxfam (http://www.oxfam.org/en/)
