Debra Adelaide
Dr Debra Adelaide is the author or editor of 19 books, including fiction, non-fiction, edited collections and reference works. Her 2008 novel, The Household Guide to Dying, was published to acclaim in Australia and around the world, and was short- and long-listed for several literary awards, including the former international Orange Prize, now the Women's Prize, for fiction.
Other fiction includes Letter to George Clooney, which was shortlisted for the Nita B. Kibble Award, The Women's Pages, and Zebra, winner of the short story category in the Queensland Literary Awards. Her most recent books are The Innocent Reader: reflections on reading & writing and When I Am Sixty-Four.
Debra Adelaide taught creative writing for 20 years and is now an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney. She lives and writes on Bidjigal country in Sydney's inner west.