Roanna Gonsalves
Dr Roanna Gonsalves is an award-winning author and academic. Her novel The Servants is forthcoming in 2027. Her critically acclaimed book of short fiction The Permanent Resident was published in India as Sunita De Souza Goes To Sydney. She is a recipient of the UNSW Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence and the Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Endeavour Award among other prizes.
Roanna’s series of radio documentaries On the tip of a billion tongues and her radio essay Doosra: The life and times of an Indian student in Australia were commissioned and broadcast by ABC Radio National. She has been teaching, supervising and mentoring emerging prose writers and screenwriters within communities, schools, literary organisations and institutions such as New York University Sydney, UNSW, Western Sydney University, Macquarie University and the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS). She serves as the editor of Southerly, Australia’s oldest literary journal, and works as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at UNSW Sydney.