Josephine Wilson
Josephine Wilson is a Perth-based writer. Her second novel Extinctions (UWA Publishing) won the 2017 Miles Franklin Award and the 2017 Colin Roderick Award, after winning the inaugural Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. It will be released in the UK and the USA in 2018. Her performance works include The Geography of Haunted Places and Customs. Her first novel Cusp (2005) was published by UWA Publishing, and will be re-released in 2018. Josephine is the parent of two children, 13 and 18. She has a PhD from the University of Western Australia (UWA), and has taught as a sessional at Murdoch University, UWA and Curtin University. Her essay “Once Upon a time, in China ” explores international adoption, and is forthcoming in The Dangerous Book of Mothers, UWAP (2018).