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Jessica White

Jessica White is the author of the award-winning A Curious Intimacy and Entitlement, and a hybrid memoir about deafness, Hearing Maud, which won the 2020 Michael Crouch Award for a debut work of biography and was shortlisted several major awards, including the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Jessica has received funding from Arts Queensland and the Australia Council for the Arts and has undertaken residencies and fellowships in Hobart, Katoomba, Rome and Munich. She is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of South Australia.