Emilie Collyer
Emilie Collyer lives in Australia on Wurundjeri land where she writes poetry, plays, fiction, and essays. Her work mines the intersection of the personal, the existential, and the socio-political. She is interested in bringing different forms into conversation with each other which includes a growing dramaturgy practice. Her writing has most recently been published in Rabbit, TEXT, Plumwood Mountain, Slippage Lit, Australian Poetry Anthology, Cordite, Overland, and The Lifted Brow. Recent plays are Contest, Dream Home, and The Good Girl which has been produced in New York, Hollywood, and Florida. She is currently under commission with Red Stitch Theatre Company. Emilie’s plays have won and been nominated for multiple awards including the Queensland Premier’s Drama Award, Green Room Awards, George Fairfax, Patrick White and Malcolm Robertson. She has a Masters in Writing for Performance from VCA and in 2020 is commencing a PhD in creative writing at RMIT.