Amanda Curtin

Amanda Curtin is author of novels Elemental (shortlisted for the WA Premier’s Book Awards) and The Sinkings, the short-story collection Inherited, and a new work of narrative non-fiction Kathleen O’Connor of Paris. In 2018 she was nominated for the Alice Award, a biennial award honouring Australian women who have made a long-term contribution to Australian literature. Amanda has a PhD in Writing and has worked as a freelance book editor for more than 30 years. She lives in Perth with her husband and an opinionated Siamese cat, and works in a backyard studio among magpies, doves and old trees.

Special interests:

• literary fiction
• historical fiction
• short fiction
• literary non-fiction
• biography/family history